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Page 44
... Blimps , and the other the left- wing intelligentsia . These two seemingly hostile types , symbolic opposites - the ... Blimp class was already losing its vitality . The middle - class families celebrated by Kipling , the prolific ...
... Blimps , and the other the left- wing intelligentsia . These two seemingly hostile types , symbolic opposites - the ... Blimp class was already losing its vitality . The middle - class families celebrated by Kipling , the prolific ...
Page 49
... Blimp - baiting affected even the Blimps themselves and made it harder than it had been before to get intelligent young men to enter the armed forces . Given the stagnation of the Empire the military middle class must have decayed in ...
... Blimp - baiting affected even the Blimps themselves and made it harder than it had been before to get intelligent young men to enter the armed forces . Given the stagnation of the Empire the military middle class must have decayed in ...
Page 94
... with endless defeats and afterwards putting the blame on other people . The left - wing intelligentsia wanted to go on and on , sniggering at the Blimps , 1 sapping away at middle - class morale , but 94 THE LION AND THE UNICORN.
... with endless defeats and afterwards putting the blame on other people . The left - wing intelligentsia wanted to go on and on , sniggering at the Blimps , 1 sapping away at middle - class morale , but 94 THE LION AND THE UNICORN.
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army Blimps bombing planes Britain British ruling class BURMESE DAYS capitalism capitalist Chamberlain civilization coloured common Communists conquered culture CYRIL CONNOLLY danger defeat democracy destroyed disaster enemy England English Genius English Socialist Europe European exist face fact Fascism feel fighting foreign GEORGE ORWELL German gloomy Sundays grasp happen Hitler HOMAGE TO CATALONIA human hypocrisy idea imperial incomes India industry intellectuals intelligentsia Italians kind Labour Party left-wing less living London Martin Secker mean ment MICHAEL FOOT middle class military million modern monied class morale nation Nazi never numbers officers outlook ownership pacifist past patriotism peace political privilege pro-Fascist programme public schools revolution revolutionary rich Rolls-Royce car Russians SEARCHLIGHT BOOK SEBASTIAN HAFFNER simply slums snigger Socialist movement society Spanish Spanish civil war surrender T. C. WORSLEY tion totalitarianism treacherous true turn UNICORN Socialism whole workers