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... modern British Empire . By 1920 nearly every inch of the colonial empire was in the grip of Whitehall . Well- meaning , over - civilized men , in dark suits and black felt hats , with neatly - rolled umbrellas crooked over the left ...
... modern British Empire . By 1920 nearly every inch of the colonial empire was in the grip of Whitehall . Well- meaning , over - civilized men , in dark suits and black felt hats , with neatly - rolled umbrellas crooked over the left ...
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... modern nation cannot afford either of them . Patriotism and intelligence ✓will have to come together again . It is the fact that we are fighting a war , and a very ' peculiar kind of war , that may make this possible . vi One of the ...
... modern nation cannot afford either of them . Patriotism and intelligence ✓will have to come together again . It is the fact that we are fighting a war , and a very ' peculiar kind of war , that may make this possible . vi One of the ...
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... modern world through nineteenth - century spectacles . Both ignored agriculture and imperial problems , and both antagonized the middle classes . The suffocating stupidity of left - wing propa- ganda had frightened away whole classes of ...
... modern world through nineteenth - century spectacles . Both ignored agriculture and imperial problems , and both antagonized the middle classes . The suffocating stupidity of left - wing propa- ganda had frightened away whole classes of ...
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