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Page 29
... comes back to two English characteristics that I pointed out , seemingly rather at random , at the beginning of the last chapter . One is the lack of artistic ability . This is perhaps another way of saying that the English are outside ...
... comes back to two English characteristics that I pointed out , seemingly rather at random , at the beginning of the last chapter . One is the lack of artistic ability . This is perhaps another way of saying that the English are outside ...
Page 43
... come to an agreement with Hitler . But - and here the peculiar feature of English life that I have spoken of , the deep sense of national solidarity , comes in - they could only do so by breaking up the Empire and selling their own ...
... come to an agreement with Hitler . But - and here the peculiar feature of English life that I have spoken of , the deep sense of national solidarity , comes in - they could only do so by breaking up the Empire and selling their own ...
Page 64
... comes the Nazi party , second come the mass of the German people , third come the conquered European populations . Fourth and last are to come the coloured peoples , the " semi - apes as Hitler calls them , who are to be reduced quite ...
... comes the Nazi party , second come the mass of the German people , third come the conquered European populations . Fourth and last are to come the coloured peoples , the " semi - apes as Hitler calls them , who are to be reduced quite ...
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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