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Page 65
... 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 standard of life . It is guns or butter , as Marshal Göring remarked . But in ...
... 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 standard of life . It is guns or butter , as Marshal Göring remarked . But in ...
Page 66
... cars . To prevent war material from reaching the enemy is common sense , but to sell in the highest market is a business duty . Right at the end of August 1939 the British dealers were tumbling over one another in their eagerness to ...
... cars . To prevent war material from reaching the enemy is common sense , but to sell in the highest market is a business duty . Right at the end of August 1939 the British dealers were tumbling over one another in their eagerness to ...
Page 77
... cars , nursing Pekingeses ? It is quite likely that this war will last three years . It will mean cruel overwork , cold dull winters , uninteresting food , lack of amusements , prolonged bombing . It cannot but lower the general ...
... cars , nursing Pekingeses ? It is quite likely that this war will last three years . It will mean cruel overwork , cold dull winters , uninteresting food , lack of amusements , prolonged bombing . It cannot but lower the general ...
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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