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... grasp any of the courses that were open to him . Like the mass of the people , he did not want to pay the price ... grasp that wars are not won without fighting . Later , perhaps , they will pick another leader who can grasp that only ...
... grasp any of the courses that were open to him . Like the mass of the people , he did not want to pay the price ... grasp that wars are not won without fighting . Later , perhaps , they will pick another leader who can grasp that only ...
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Socialism and the English Genius George Orwell. can grasp that only Socialist nations can fight effectively . Do I mean by all this that England is a genuine democracy ? No , not even a reader of the Daily Telegraph could quite swallow ...
Socialism and the English Genius George Orwell. can grasp that only Socialist nations can fight effectively . Do I mean by all this that England is a genuine democracy ? No , not even a reader of the Daily Telegraph could quite swallow ...
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... grasp what age they are living in or what enemy they are fighting . Nothing was more desolating at the beginning of this war than the way in which the whole of the older generation conspired to pretend that it was the war of 1914-18 ...
... grasp what age they are living in or what enemy they are fighting . Nothing was more desolating at the beginning of this war than the way in which the whole of the older generation conspired to pretend that it was the war of 1914-18 ...
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