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... fact that they had trained themselves never to face . They dealt with Fascism as the cavalry generals of 1914 dealt with the machine gun - by ignoring it . After years of aggression and massacres , they had grasped only one fact , that ...
... fact that they had trained themselves never to face . They dealt with Fascism as the cavalry generals of 1914 dealt with the machine gun - by ignoring it . After years of aggression and massacres , they had grasped only one fact , that ...
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... fact . This vein of political ignorance runs right through English official life , through Cabinet ministers , ambassa- dors , consuls , judges , magistrates , policemen . The policeman who arrests the " Red does not understand the ...
... fact . This vein of political ignorance runs right through English official life , through Cabinet ministers , ambassa- dors , consuls , judges , magistrates , policemen . The policeman who arrests the " Red does not understand the ...
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... fact about so many of the English intelligentsia — their severance from the common culture of the country . In intention , at any rate , the English intelligentsia are Europeanized . They take their cookery from Paris and their opinions ...
... fact about so many of the English intelligentsia — their severance from the common culture of the country . In intention , at any rate , the English intelligentsia are Europeanized . They take their cookery from Paris and their opinions ...
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