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... Spanish Republican government , had been bombed by Italian aeroplanes . Even when they had begun to grasp that Fascism was dangerous , its essentially revolutionary nature , the huge military effort it was capable of making , the sort ...
... Spanish Republican government , had been bombed by Italian aeroplanes . Even when they had begun to grasp that Fascism was dangerous , its essentially revolutionary nature , the huge military effort it was capable of making , the sort ...
Page 47
... when the war started . It is broadly though not precisely true that the people who were most “ anti- Fascist " during the Spanish civil war are most defeatist now . And underlying this is the really 47 ENGLAND YOUR ENGLAND.
... when the war started . It is broadly though not precisely true that the people who were most “ anti- Fascist " during the Spanish civil war are most defeatist now . And underlying this is the really 47 ENGLAND YOUR ENGLAND.
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... Spanish people were defeated , but the things they learned during those two and a half memorable years will one day come back upon the Spanish Fascists like a boomerang . A piece of Shakespearean bombast was much quoted at the beginning ...
... Spanish people were defeated , but the things they learned during those two and a half memorable years will one day come back upon the Spanish Fascists like a boomerang . A piece of Shakespearean bombast was much quoted at the beginning ...
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