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Year after year the Beaverbrook press assured us in huge headlines that THERE WILL BE NO WAR , and as late as the beginning of 1939 Lord Rothermere was describing Hitler a great gentleman ” . And while England in the moment of disaster ...
Year after year the Beaverbrook press assured us in huge headlines that THERE WILL BE NO WAR , and as late as the beginning of 1939 Lord Rothermere was describing Hitler a great gentleman ” . And while England in the moment of disaster ...
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It is difficult to imagine any reorganization of English agriculture that would not retain most of the existing farms as units , at any rate at the beginning . The farmer , when he is competent , will continue as a salaried manager .
It is difficult to imagine any reorganization of English agriculture that would not retain most of the existing farms as units , at any rate at the beginning . The farmer , when he is competent , will continue as a salaried manager .
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... but the things they learned during those two and a half memorable years will one day come back upon the Spanish Fascists like a boomerang . A piece of Shakespearean bombast was much quoted at the beginning of the war .
... but the things they learned during those two and a half memorable years will one day come back upon the Spanish Fascists like a boomerang . A piece of Shakespearean bombast was much quoted at the beginning of the war .
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User Review - the.ken.petersen - LibraryThingIt seems harsh to criticise George Orwell's optimism when he implies that socialism has become inevitable: he was writing in 1941, I thought so in 1980. Sadly, Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher and ... Read full review
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| Title | The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius Issue 1 of Searchlight books |
| Author | George Orwell |
| Publisher | Secker & Warburg, 1941 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 25 Jul 2006 |
| Length | 126 pages |
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