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One can learn a good deal about the spirit of England from the comic coloured postcards that you see in the windows of cheap stationers ' shops . These things are a sort of diary upon which the English people have unconsciously recorded ...
One can learn a good deal about the spirit of England from the comic coloured postcards that you see in the windows of cheap stationers ' shops . These things are a sort of diary upon which the English people have unconsciously recorded ...
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How can we drive the Italians out of Abyssinia without rousing echoes among the coloured peoples of our own Empire ? How can we even smash Hitler without the risk of bringing the German Socialists and Communists into power ?
How can we drive the Italians out of Abyssinia without rousing echoes among the coloured peoples of our own Empire ? How can we even smash Hitler without the risk of bringing the German Socialists and Communists into power ?
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He will reduce the coloured peoples once and for all to outright slavery . The real quarrel of the Fascist powers with British imperialism is that they know that it is disintegrating . Another twenty years along the present line of ...
He will reduce the coloured peoples once and for all to outright slavery . The real quarrel of the Fascist powers with British imperialism is that they know that it is disintegrating . Another twenty years along the present line of ...
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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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