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A bombing plane , for instance , is equivalent in price to fifty small motor cars , or eighty thousand pairs of silk stockings , or a million loaves of bread . Clearly you can't have many bombing planes without lowering the national ...
A bombing plane , for instance , is equivalent in price to fifty small motor cars , or eighty thousand pairs of silk stockings , or a million loaves of bread . Clearly you can't have many bombing planes without lowering the national ...
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laughed away , something that neither cheque - books nor policemen were any use against - the bombing . Zweee - BOOM ! What's that ? Oh , only a bomb on the Stock Exchange . Zweee - BOOM ! Another acre of somebody's valuable slum ...
laughed away , something that neither cheque - books nor policemen were any use against - the bombing . Zweee - BOOM ! What's that ? Oh , only a bomb on the Stock Exchange . Zweee - BOOM ! Another acre of somebody's valuable slum ...
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In the age of the tank and the bombing plane , backward agricultural countries like India and the African colonies can no more be independent than can a cat or a dog . Had any Labour Government come into office with a clear majority and ...
In the age of the tank and the bombing plane , backward agricultural countries like India and the African colonies can no more be independent than can a cat or a dog . Had any Labour Government come into office with a clear majority and ...
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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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