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... Italians can do nothing without making a deafening noise , the Chinese are addicted to gambling . Obvi- ously such things don't matter in themselves . Nevertheless , nothing is causeless , and even the fact that Englishmen have bad ...
... Italians can do nothing without making a deafening noise , the Chinese are addicted to gambling . Obvi- ously such things don't matter in themselves . Nevertheless , nothing is causeless , and even the fact that Englishmen have bad ...
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... the whole world that the Italians were going to attack us in the spring . For the sake of a few hundred thousand dividend- drawers they are turning India from an ally into an enemy . Moreover , so long as 72 THE LION AND THE UNICORN.
... the whole world that the Italians were going to attack us in the spring . For the sake of a few hundred thousand dividend- drawers they are turning India from an ally into an enemy . Moreover , so long as 72 THE LION AND THE UNICORN.
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... Italians out of Abyssinia without rousing echoes among the coloured peoples of our own Empire ? How can we even smash Hitler without the risk of bringing the German Socialists and Communists into power ? The left - wingers who wail that ...
... Italians out of Abyssinia without rousing echoes among the coloured peoples of our own Empire ? How can we even smash Hitler without the risk of bringing the German Socialists and Communists into power ? The left - wingers who wail that ...
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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