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All through the critical years many left - wingers were chipping away at English morale , trying to spread an outlook that was sometimes squashily pacifist , sometimes violently pro - Russian , but always antiBritish .
All through the critical years many left - wingers were chipping away at English morale , trying to spread an outlook that was sometimes squashily pacifist , sometimes violently pro - Russian , but always antiBritish .
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... 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 . | PART III THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION i THE ' HE 83 SHOPKEEPERS AT WAR.
... 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 . | PART III THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION i THE ' HE 83 SHOPKEEPERS AT WAR.
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sapping away at middle - class morale , but still keeping their favoured position as hangers - on of the dividend - drawers . Labour Party politics had become a variant of Conservatism , “ revolutionary ” politics had become a game of ...
sapping away at middle - class morale , but still keeping their favoured position as hangers - on of the dividend - drawers . Labour Party politics had become a variant of Conservatism , “ revolutionary ” politics had become a game 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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