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What English people of nearly all classes loathe from the bottom of their hearts is
the swaggering officer type , the jingle of spurs ... So deep does this feeling go
that for a hundred years past the officers of the British Army , in peace - time ,
have ...
What English people of nearly all classes loathe from the bottom of their hearts is
the swaggering officer type , the jingle of spurs ... So deep does this feeling go
that for a hundred years past the officers of the British Army , in peace - time ,
have ...
Page 18
There are , heaven knows , plenty of army officers who would be only too glad to
introduce some such thing . It is not used because the people in the street would
laugh . Beyond a certain point , military display is only possible in countries ...
There are , heaven knows , plenty of army officers who would be only too glad to
introduce some such thing . It is not used because the people in the street would
laugh . Beyond a certain point , military display is only possible in countries ...
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The suffocating stupidity of leftwing propaganda had frightened away whole
classes of necessary people , factory managers , airmen , naval officers , farmers
, white collar workers , shopkeepers , policemen . All of these people had been ...
The suffocating stupidity of leftwing propaganda had frightened away whole
classes of necessary people , factory managers , airmen , naval officers , farmers
, white collar workers , shopkeepers , policemen . All of these people had been ...
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