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... Spanish civil war , anyone with as much political knowledge as can be acquired from a sixpenny pamphlet on Socialism knew that if Franco won , the result would be strategi- cally diastrous for England ; and yet generals and admirals who ...
... Spanish civil war , anyone with as much political knowledge as can be acquired from a sixpenny pamphlet on Socialism knew that if Franco won , the result would be strategi- cally diastrous for England ; and yet generals and admirals who ...
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... war against Germany in the years 1935-9 , and then promptly cooled off 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 ...
... war against Germany in the years 1935-9 , and then promptly cooled off 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 ...
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