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... appeal than a brilliant victory . The most stirring battle- poem in English is about a brigade of cavalry which charged in the wrong direction . And of the last war , the four names which have really engraved themselves on the popular ...
... appeal than a brilliant victory . The most stirring battle- poem in English is about a brigade of cavalry which charged in the wrong direction . And of the last war , the four names which have really engraved themselves on the popular ...
Page 81
... appeal to people in very sheltered positions . More- over , being negative and irresponsible , it does not inspire much devotion . Of the membership of the Peace Pledge Union , less than 15 per cent even pay their annual subscriptions ...
... appeal to people in very sheltered positions . More- over , being negative and irresponsible , it does not inspire much devotion . Of the membership of the Peace Pledge Union , less than 15 per cent even pay their annual subscriptions ...
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... appeal only to a rather rare type of person , found chiefly in the middle - class intelligentsia , the type who has ceased to love his own country but still feels the need of patriotism , and therefore develops patriotic sentiments ...
... appeal only to a rather rare type of person , found chiefly in the middle - class intelligentsia , the type who has ceased to love his own country but still feels the need of patriotism , and therefore develops patriotic sentiments ...
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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 Empire enemy England English Genius English Socialist Europe European exist 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 BOOKS SEBASTIAN HAFFNER SECKER & WARBURG simply slums snigger Socialist movement Spanish Spanish civil war surrender T. C. WORSLEY tion totalitarianism true turn UNICORN Socialism whole workers