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... never be happy away from it for any length of time . The suet puddings and the red pillar - boxes have entered into your soul . Good or evil , it is yours , you belong to it , and this side the grave you will never get away from the ...
... never be happy away from it for any length of time . The suet puddings and the red pillar - boxes have entered into your soul . Good or evil , it is yours , you belong to it , and this side the grave you will never get away from the ...
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... never thought or acted internationally . For two and a half years they watched their comrades in Spain slowly strangled , and never aided them by even a single strike.1 But when their own country ( the country of Lord Nuffield and Mr ...
... never thought or acted internationally . For two and a half years they watched their comrades in Spain slowly strangled , and never aided them by even a single strike.1 But when their own country ( the country of Lord Nuffield and Mr ...
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... never been and never expect to be in a position of power . Another marked characteristic is the emotional shal- lowness of people who live in a world of ideas and have little contact with physical reality . Many intellectuals of the ...
... never been and never expect to be in a position of power . Another marked characteristic is the emotional shal- lowness of people who live in a world of ideas and have little contact with physical reality . Many intellectuals of the ...
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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