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... hypocrisy . After all , the English have absorbed a quarter of the earth and held on to it by means of a huge navy . How dare they then turn round and say that war is wicked ? It is quite true that the English are hypo- critical about ...
... hypocrisy . After all , the English have absorbed a quarter of the earth and held on to it by means of a huge navy . How dare they then turn round and say that war is wicked ? It is quite true that the English are hypo- critical about ...
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... hypocrisy , their extreme gentleness , their deeply moral atti- tude to life , are all mirrored there . The gentleness of the English civilization is perhaps its most marked characteristic . You notice it the instant you set foot on ...
... hypocrisy , their extreme gentleness , their deeply moral atti- tude to life , are all mirrored there . The gentleness of the English civilization is perhaps its most marked characteristic . You notice it the instant you set foot on ...
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... hypocrisy . After all , the English have absorbed a quarter of the earth and held on to it by means of a huge navy . How dare they then turn round and say that war is wicked ? It is quite true that the English are hypo- critical about ...
... hypocrisy . After all , the English have absorbed a quarter of the earth and held on to it by means of a huge navy . How dare they then turn round and say that war is wicked ? It is quite true that the English are hypo- critical about ...
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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