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... pacifist up to 1935 , shrieked for war against Germany in the years 1935-9 , and then promptly cooled off when the war started . It is broadly though not pre- cisely true that the people who were most " anti- Fascist " during the ...
... pacifist up to 1935 , shrieked for war against Germany in the years 1935-9 , and then promptly cooled off when the war started . It is broadly though not pre- cisely true that the people who were most " anti- Fascist " during the ...
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Socialism and the English Genius George Orwell. that was sometimes squashily pacifist , sometimes violently pro - Russian , but always anti - British . It is questionable how much effect this had , but it certainly had some . If the ...
Socialism and the English Genius George Orwell. that was sometimes squashily pacifist , sometimes violently pro - Russian , but always anti - British . It is questionable how much effect this had , but it certainly had some . If the ...
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... pacifist lean- ings , to their masochism . One knows in advance more or less what they will say . They will start by refusing to admit that British capitalism is evolving into something different , or that the defeat of Hitler can mean ...
... pacifist lean- ings , to their masochism . One knows in advance more or less what they will say . They will start by refusing to admit that British capitalism is evolving into something different , or that the defeat of Hitler can mean ...
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