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iii I have spoken all the while of “ the England ” , “ Britain , as though 45 million souls could somehow be treated as a unit . But is not England notoriously two nations , the rich and the poor ? Dare one pretend that there is ...
iii I have spoken all the while of “ the England ” , “ Britain , as though 45 million souls could somehow be treated as a unit . But is not England notoriously two nations , the rich and the poor ? Dare one pretend that there is ...
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He got a quarter of a million men in the first twenty - four hours , and another million in the subsequent month . One has only to compare these figures with , for instance , the number of Conscientious Objectors to see how vast is the ...
He got a quarter of a million men in the first twenty - four hours , and another million in the subsequent month . One has only to compare these figures with , for instance , the number of Conscientious Objectors to see how vast is the ...
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The Home Guard swells to a million men in a few weeks , and is deliberately organized from above in c * 73 SHOPKEEPERS AT WAR.
The Home Guard swells to a million men in a few weeks , and is deliberately organized from above in c * 73 SHOPKEEPERS AT WAR.
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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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