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Page 11
... Labour Exchanges , the rattle of pin - tables in the Soho pubs , the old maids biking to Holy Communion through the mists of the autumn mornings - all these are not only fragments , but characteristic fragments , of the English scene ...
... Labour Exchanges , the rattle of pin - tables in the Soho pubs , the old maids biking to Holy Communion through the mists of the autumn mornings - all these are not only fragments , but characteristic fragments , of the English scene ...
Page 94
... Labour leaders wanted to go on and on , drawing their salaries and periodically swapping jobs with the Con- servatives . The Communists wanted to go on and on , suffering a comfortable martyr- dom , meeting with endless defeats and ...
... Labour leaders wanted to go on and on , drawing their salaries and periodically swapping jobs with the Con- servatives . The Communists wanted to go on and on , suffering a comfortable martyr- dom , meeting with endless defeats and ...
Page 121
... democracy were incapable of evolving beyond its present stage . The whole conception of the mili- tarized continental state , with its secret police , its censored literature and its con- script labour 121 THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION.
... democracy were incapable of evolving beyond its present stage . The whole conception of the mili- tarized continental state , with its secret police , its censored literature and its con- script labour 121 THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION.
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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