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... English mystique , and the intellectuals who have tried to break it down have generally done more harm than good . At bottom it is the same quality in the English character that repels the tourist and keeps out the invader . Here one ...
... English mystique , and the intellectuals who have tried to break it down have generally done more harm than good . At bottom it is the same quality in the English character that repels the tourist and keeps out the invader . Here one ...
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... English intelligentsia - their severance from the common culture of the country . In intention , at any rate , the English intelligentsia are Europeanized . They take their cookery from Paris and their opinions from Moscow . In the ...
... English intelligentsia - their severance from the common culture of the country . In intention , at any rate , the English intelligentsia are Europeanized . They take their cookery from Paris and their opinions from Moscow . In the ...
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... English people . Throughout its entire history the English Socialist movement has never produced a song with a catchy tune - nothing like La Marseillaise or La Cucuracha , for instance . When a Socialist movement native to England ...
... English people . Throughout its entire history the English Socialist movement has never produced a song with a catchy tune - nothing like La Marseillaise or La Cucuracha , for instance . When a Socialist movement native to England ...
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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