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... pacifist up to 1935 , shrieked for war against Germany in the years 1935-9 , and then promptly cooled off when the war started . It is broadly though not precisely true that the people who were most “ anti- Fascist " during the Spanish ...
... pacifist up to 1935 , shrieked for war against Germany in the years 1935-9 , and then promptly cooled off when the war started . It is broadly though not precisely true that the people who were most “ anti- Fascist " during the Spanish ...
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... pacifist , sometimes violently pro - Russian , but always anti- British . It is questionable how much effect this had , but it certainly had some . If the English people suffered for several years a real weakening of morale , so that ...
... pacifist , sometimes violently pro - Russian , but always anti- British . It is questionable how much effect this had , but it certainly had some . If the English people suffered for several years a real weakening of morale , so that ...
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... pacifism , which is a by - product of naval power , can only appeal to people in very sheltered positions . More ... pacifists , Communists or Blackshirts , could bring a large - scale stop - the - war move- ment into being by their own ...
... pacifism , which is a by - product of naval power , can only appeal to people in very sheltered positions . More ... pacifists , Communists or Blackshirts , could bring a large - scale stop - the - war move- ment into being by their own ...
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