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Page 43
... Chamberlain , etc. , was to come to an agreement with Hitler . But - and here the peculiar feature of English life that I have spoken of , the deep sense of national solidarity , comes in - they could only do so by breaking up the ...
... Chamberlain , etc. , was to come to an agreement with Hitler . But - and here the peculiar feature of English life that I have spoken of , the deep sense of national solidarity , comes in - they could only do so by breaking up the ...
Page 74
... Chamberlain government at the begin- ning of the war broke all depth - records . Yet they could not have been much other than they were , for how could Chamberlain and his followers take the risk of rousing strong popular feeling ...
... Chamberlain government at the begin- ning of the war broke all depth - records . Yet they could not have been much other than they were , for how could Chamberlain and his followers take the risk of rousing strong popular feeling ...
Page 78
... Chamberlain and the unneces- sary suffering of scores of thousands of people in the East End to get rid or partially rid of Sir John Anderson . It is not worth losing a battle in order to bury a corpse . For we are fighting against ...
... Chamberlain and the unneces- sary suffering of scores of thousands of people in the East End to get rid or partially rid of Sir John Anderson . It is not worth losing a battle in order to bury a corpse . For we are fighting against ...
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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