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... past three - quarters of a century has been the decay of ability in the ruling class . In the years between 1920 and 1940 it was happening with the speed of a chemical reaction . Yet at the moment of writing it is 35 ENGLAND YOUR ENGLAND.
... past three - quarters of a century has been the decay of ability in the ruling class . In the years between 1920 and 1940 it was happening with the speed of a chemical reaction . Yet at the moment of writing it is 35 ENGLAND YOUR ENGLAND.
Page 36
... ruling class . Like the knife which has had two new blades and three new handles , the upper fringe of English society is still almost what it was in the mid - nineteenth century . After 1832 the old landowning aristocracy steadily lost ...
... ruling class . Like the knife which has had two new blades and three new handles , the upper fringe of English society is still almost what it was in the mid - nineteenth century . After 1832 the old landowning aristocracy steadily lost ...
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... ruling - class orbit . It must be admitted that so long as things were peaceful the methods of the British ruling class served them well enough . Their own people manifestly tolerated them . How- ever unjustly England might be organized ...
... ruling - class orbit . It must be admitted that so long as things were peaceful the methods of the British ruling class served them well enough . Their own people manifestly tolerated them . How- ever unjustly England might be organized ...
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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