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Page 80
... Communists , to Mosley's followers , to the pacifists , and to certain sections among the Catholics . Also , if things went badly enough on the Home front , the whole of the poorer section of the working class might swing round to a ...
... Communists , to Mosley's followers , to the pacifists , and to certain sections among the Catholics . Also , if things went badly enough on the Home front , the whole of the poorer section of the working class might swing round to a ...
Page 81
... Communists or Blackshirts , could bring a large - scale stop - the - war move- ment into being by their own efforts . But they might help to make things very much easier for a treacherous government negotia- ting surrender . Like the ...
... Communists or Blackshirts , could bring a large - scale stop - the - war move- ment into being by their own efforts . But they might help to make things very much easier for a treacherous government negotia- ting surrender . Like the ...
Page 92
... Communists had barely 20,000 members , actually a smaller number than they had started out with in 1920. The other Marxist parties were of even less importance . They had not the Russian money and prestige behind them , and even more ...
... Communists had barely 20,000 members , actually a smaller number than they had started out with in 1920. The other Marxist parties were of even less importance . They had not the Russian money and prestige behind them , and even more ...
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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