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... thought . Yes , there is something distinctive and recognizable in English civilization . It is a culture as individual as that of Spain . It is somehow bound up with solid breakfasts and gloomy Sundays , smoky towns and winding roads ...
... thought . Yes , there is something distinctive and recognizable in English civilization . It is a culture as individual as that of Spain . It is somehow bound up with solid breakfasts and gloomy Sundays , smoky towns and winding roads ...
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... 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. Montagu ...
... 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. Montagu ...
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... thought of a world in which black men would be as good as white men and Jews treated as human beings brings him the same horror and despair as the thought of endless slavery brings to us . It is important to keep in mind how ...
... thought of a world in which black men would be as good as white men and Jews treated as human beings brings him the same horror and despair as the thought of endless slavery brings to us . It is important to keep in mind how ...
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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