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Page 37
... position of the monied class had long ceased to be justifiable . There they sat , at the centre of a vast empire and a world - wide financial network , drawing interest and profits and spending them - on what ? It was fair to say that ...
... position of the monied class had long ceased to be justifiable . There they sat , at the centre of a vast empire and a world - wide financial network , drawing interest and profits and spending them - on what ? It was fair to say that ...
Page 47
... 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 Left were flabbily pacifist up to 1935 ...
... 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 Left were flabbily pacifist up to 1935 ...
Page 49
... position of the English intellectuals during the past ten years , as purely negative creatures , mere anti - Blimps , was a by - product of ruling- class stupidity . Society could not use them , and they had not got it in them to see ...
... position of the English intellectuals during the past ten years , as purely negative creatures , mere anti - Blimps , was a by - product of ruling- class stupidity . Society could not use them , and they had not got it in them to see ...
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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