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Page 71
... fighting . Nothing was more deso- lating at the beginning of this war than the way in which the whole of the older genera- tion conspired to pretend that it was the war of 1914-18 over again . All the old duds were back on the job ...
... fighting . Nothing was more deso- lating at the beginning of this war than the way in which the whole of the older genera- tion conspired to pretend that it was the war of 1914-18 over again . All the old duds were back on the job ...
Page 117
... fighting for you . Underneath it lies the frightful inferiority complex of the English intellectual , the belief that the English are no longer a martial race , no longer capable of enduring . In truth there is no reason to think that ...
... fighting for you . Underneath it lies the frightful inferiority complex of the English intellectual , the belief that the English are no longer a martial race , no longer capable of enduring . In truth there is no reason to think that ...
Page 124
... fighting for is altogether destroyed , it will have been destroyed partly by our own act . It could happen that England should introduce the beginnings of Socialism , turn this war into a revolutionary war , and still be defeated . That ...
... fighting for is altogether destroyed , it will have been destroyed partly by our own act . It could happen that England should introduce the beginnings of Socialism , turn this war into a revolutionary war , and still be defeated . That ...
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