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A bombing plane , for instance , is equivalent in price to fifty small motor cars , or
eighty thousand pairs of silk stockings , or a million loaves of bread . Clearly you
can't have many bombing planes without lowering the national standard of life .
A bombing plane , for instance , is equivalent in price to fifty small motor cars , or
eighty thousand pairs of silk stockings , or a million loaves of bread . Clearly you
can't have many bombing planes without lowering the national standard of life .
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laughed away , something that neither cheque - books nor policemen were any
use against - the bombing . Zweee -- BOOM ! What's that ? Oh , only a bomb on
the Stock Exchange . Zweee - BOOM ! Another acre of somebody's valuable slum
...
laughed away , something that neither cheque - books nor policemen were any
use against - the bombing . Zweee -- BOOM ! What's that ? Oh , only a bomb on
the Stock Exchange . Zweee - BOOM ! Another acre of somebody's valuable slum
...
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Socialism and the English Genius George Orwell. But it cannot arise when we
have once introduced a reasonable degree of social justice . The lady in the
Rolls - Royce car is more damaging to morale than a fleet of Göring's bombing -
planes ...
Socialism and the English Genius George Orwell. But it cannot arise when we
have once introduced a reasonable degree of social justice . The lady in the
Rolls - Royce car is more damaging to morale than a fleet of Göring's bombing -
planes ...
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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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