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From that time onwards it has been next door to impossible to induce young men of spirit to take any part in imperial administration . And what was true of the official world was true also of the commercial .
From that time onwards it has been next door to impossible to induce young men of spirit to take any part in imperial administration . And what was true of the official world was true also of the commercial .
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To a Labour Government in power , three imperial policies would have been open . One was to continue administering the Empire exactly as before , which meant dropping all pretensions to Socialism . Another was to set the subject peoples ...
To a Labour Government in power , three imperial policies would have been open . One was to continue administering the Empire exactly as before , which meant dropping all pretensions to Socialism . Another was to set the subject peoples ...
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Both ignored agriculture and imperial problems , and both antagonized the middle classes . The suffocating stupidity of leftwing propaganda had frightened away whole classes of necessary people , factory managers , airmen , naval ...
Both ignored agriculture and imperial problems , and both antagonized the middle classes . The suffocating stupidity of leftwing propaganda had frightened away whole classes of necessary people , factory managers , airmen , naval ...
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User Review - the.ken.petersen - LibraryThingIt seems harsh to criticise George Orwell's optimism when he implies that socialism has become inevitable: he was writing in 1941, I thought so in 1980. Sadly, Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher and ... Read full review
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| Title | The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius The Uniform Edition of George Orwell Works, George Orwell [His works. Uniform edition], George Orwell |
| Author | George Orwell |
| Publisher | Secker and Warburg, 1962 |
| Original from | Pennsylvania State University |
| Digitized | 11 Feb 2011 |
| Length | 96 pages |
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