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He got a quarter of a million men in the first twenty - four hours , and another million in the subsequent month . One has only to compare these figures with , for instance , the number of Conscientious Objectors to see how vast is the ...
He got a quarter of a million men in the first twenty - four hours , and another million in the subsequent month . One has only to compare these figures with , for instance , the number of Conscientious Objectors to see how vast is the ...
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Only half a million people , the people in the country houses , definitely benefited from the existing system . Moreover , the tendency of small business to merge together into large ones robbed more and more of the monied class of ...
Only half a million people , the people in the country houses , definitely benefited from the existing system . Moreover , the tendency of small business to merge together into large ones robbed more and more of the monied class of ...
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Or we are to publish high - sounding war - aims ( vide books like Unser Kampf , A Hundred Million Allies -If We Choose , etc. ) , whereupon the European populations will infallibly rise on our behalf . It is the same idea all the time ...
Or we are to publish high - sounding war - aims ( vide books like Unser Kampf , A Hundred Million Allies -If We Choose , etc. ) , whereupon the European populations will infallibly rise on our behalf . It is the same idea all the time ...
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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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