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... Spanish Republican government , had been bombed by Italian aeroplanes . Even when they had begun to grasp that Fascism was dangerous , its essentially revolutionary nature , the huge military effort it was capable of making , the sort ...
... Spanish Republican government , had been bombed by Italian aeroplanes . Even when they had begun to grasp that Fascism was dangerous , its essentially revolutionary nature , the huge military effort it was capable of making , the sort ...
Page 38
... Spanish civil war are most defeatist now . And underlying this is the really important fact about so many of the English intel- ligentsia ― their severance from the common culture of the country . In intention , at any rate , the ...
... Spanish civil war are most defeatist now . And underlying this is the really important fact about so many of the English intel- ligentsia ― their severance from the common culture of the country . In intention , at any rate , the ...
Page 59
... the main reason why the Spanish Republic could keep up the fight for two and a half years against impossible odds was that there were no gross contrasts of wealth . The people suffered horribly THE LION AND THE UNICORN 59.
... the main reason why the Spanish Republic could keep up the fight for two and a half years against impossible odds was that there were no gross contrasts of wealth . The people suffered horribly THE LION AND THE UNICORN 59.
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