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In peace - time , even when there are two million unemployed , it is difficult to fill
the ranks of the tiny standing army , which is officered by the county gentry and a
specialized stratum of the middle class , and manned by farm labourers and slum
...
In peace - time , even when there are two million unemployed , it is difficult to fill
the ranks of the tiny standing army , which is officered by the county gentry and a
specialized stratum of the middle class , and manned by farm labourers and slum
...
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Decades before Hitler was ever heard of , the word “ Prussian ” had much the
same significance in England as “ Nazi ” has to - day . So deep does this feeling
go that for a hundred years past the officers of the British Army , in peace - time ...
Decades before Hitler was ever heard of , the word “ Prussian ” had much the
same significance in England as “ Nazi ” has to - day . So deep does this feeling
go that for a hundred years past the officers of the British Army , in peace - time ...
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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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