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Page 65
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
Page 77
... bombing . It cannot but lower the general standard of living , because the essential act of war is to manufacture armaments instead of consum- able goods . The working classes will have to suffer terrible things . And they will suffer ...
... bombing . It cannot but lower the general standard of living , because the essential act of war is to manufacture armaments instead of consum- able goods . The working classes will have to suffer terrible things . And they will suffer ...
Page 79
... bombing can settle a major war . England might well be invaded and conquered , but the invasion would be a dangerous gamble , and if it happened and failed it would probably leave us more united and less Blimp - ridden than before ...
... bombing can settle a major war . England might well be invaded and conquered , but the invasion would be a dangerous gamble , and if it happened and failed it would probably leave us more united and less Blimp - ridden than before ...
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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