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Remarks like “ They can't run me in ; I haven't done anything wrong ? They can't do that ; it's against the law ” , are part of the atmosphere of England . The professed enemies of society have this feeling as strongly as One sees it in ...
Remarks like “ They can't run me in ; I haven't done anything wrong ? They can't do that ; it's against the law ” , are part of the atmosphere of England . The professed enemies of society have this feeling as strongly as One sees it in ...
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Hitler will at any rate go down in history as the man who made the City of London laugh on the wrong side of its face . For the first time in their lives the comfortable were uncomfortable , the professional optimists had to admit that ...
Hitler will at any rate go down in history as the man who made the City of London laugh on the wrong side of its face . For the first time in their lives the comfortable were uncomfortable , the professional optimists had to admit that ...
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That does not mean that they will deliberately sell out ; but it does mean that at every decisive moment they are likely to falter , pull their punches , do the wrong thing . Until the Churchill government called some sort of halt to ...
That does not mean that they will deliberately sell out ; but it does mean that at every decisive moment they are likely to falter , pull their punches , do the wrong thing . Until the Churchill government called some sort of halt to ...
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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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