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There they sat , at the centre of a vast empire and a world - wide financial network , drawing interest and profits and spending them - on what ? It was fair to say that life within the British Empire was in many ways better than life ...
There they sat , at the centre of a vast empire and a world - wide financial network , drawing interest and profits and spending them - on what ? It was fair to say that life within the British Empire was in many ways better than life ...
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Men like Clive , Nelson , Nicholson , Gordon would find no place for themselves in the modern British Empire . By 1920 nearly every inch of the colonial empire was in the grip of Whitehall . Wellmeaning , over - civilized men , in dark ...
Men like Clive , Nelson , Nicholson , Gordon would find no place for themselves in the modern British Empire . By 1920 nearly every inch of the colonial empire was in the grip of Whitehall . Wellmeaning , over - civilized men , in dark ...
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One was to continue administering the Empire exactly as before , which meant dropping all pretensions to to Socialism . Another was to set the subject peoples “ free ” , which meant in practice handing them over to Japan , Italy and ...
One was to continue administering the Empire exactly as before , which meant dropping all pretensions to to Socialism . Another was to set the subject peoples “ free ” , which meant in practice handing them over to Japan , Italy and ...
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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 Issue 1 of Searchlight books |
| Author | George Orwell |
| Publisher | Secker & Warburg, 1941 |
| Length | 126 pages |
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