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... nearly all of them . Only the Europeanized intelligentsia are really immune to it . As a positive emotion it is stronger in the middle class than in the upper class - the cheap public schools , for instance , are more given to patriotic ...
... nearly all of them . Only the Europeanized intelligentsia are really immune to it . As a positive emotion it is stronger in the middle class than in the upper class - the cheap public schools , for instance , are more given to patriotic ...
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... Nearly always it is more in the nature of self - deception , of the right hand not knowing what the left hand doeth . And being unconscious , it is limited . One sees this at its most obvious in the English Press . Is the English press ...
... Nearly always it is more in the nature of self - deception , of the right hand not knowing what the left hand doeth . And being unconscious , it is limited . One sees this at its most obvious in the English Press . Is the English press ...
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... nearly every inch of the colonial empire was in the grip of Whitehall . Well- meaning , over - civilized men , in dark suits and black felt hats , with neatly - rolled umbrellas crooked over the left forearm , were imposing their ...
... nearly every inch of the colonial empire was in the grip of Whitehall . Well- meaning , over - civilized men , in dark suits and black felt hats , with neatly - rolled umbrellas crooked over the left forearm , were imposing their ...
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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