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... liberalism : radical democracy was part of the fam- ily tradition to which George Lichtheim fell heir . ) The young couple — Richard was twenty - six when he first became a Zionist diplomat — settled in Berlin where George was born in ...
... liberalism : radical democracy was part of the fam- ily tradition to which George Lichtheim fell heir . ) The young couple — Richard was twenty - six when he first became a Zionist diplomat — settled in Berlin where George was born in ...
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... liberal capitalism . Indeed , despite his generally gloomy assessment of the actual condition of the world's socialist movements , and his derisory con- demnation of Communism , George held firmly to his belief in an evolutionary ...
... liberal capitalism . Indeed , despite his generally gloomy assessment of the actual condition of the world's socialist movements , and his derisory con- demnation of Communism , George held firmly to his belief in an evolutionary ...
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... liberals and pacifists then saw him . During those years , when a shell - shocked England tried to re- cover from World War I , thousands would have echoed the words that E. M. Forster put into the mouth of his dead soldier on Achi Baba ...
... liberals and pacifists then saw him . During those years , when a shell - shocked England tried to re- cover from World War I , thousands would have echoed the words that E. M. Forster put into the mouth of his dead soldier on Achi Baba ...
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... Liberal leaders ; he had sympathized with the Boers , though regarding their defeat as necessary , and was repelled by the vulgar chauvinism of the Tory rank and file ( indeed , he later became a close friend of Louis Botha , the Boer ...
... Liberal leaders ; he had sympathized with the Boers , though regarding their defeat as necessary , and was repelled by the vulgar chauvinism of the Tory rank and file ( indeed , he later became a close friend of Louis Botha , the Boer ...
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... Liberal in 1910 , a fren- zied anti - Bolshevik in 1920 , an admirer of Mussolini ( but likewise of Lincoln , Smuts , and Clemenceau ) in 1930 , the leader of his nation against Hitler in 1940 , and the de facto architect of the ...
... Liberal in 1910 , a fren- zied anti - Bolshevik in 1920 , an admirer of Mussolini ( but likewise of Lincoln , Smuts , and Clemenceau ) in 1930 , the leader of his nation against Hitler in 1940 , and the de facto architect of the ...
Contents
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V | 29 |
VI | 53 |
VII | 69 |
VIII | 83 |
IX | 90 |
X | 96 |
XI | 104 |
XXX | 234 |
XXXI | 247 |
XXXII | 255 |
XXXIII | 257 |
XXXIV | 275 |
XXXVI | 294 |
XXXVII | 300 |
XXXVIII | 309 |
XII | 111 |
XIII | 115 |
XIV | 117 |
XV | 128 |
XVI | 134 |
XVII | 150 |
XVIII | 156 |
XIX | 163 |
XX | 173 |
XXI | 175 |
XXII | 192 |
XXIII | 200 |
XXIV | 206 |
XXV | 213 |
XXVI | 218 |
XXVII | 221 |
XXVIII | 223 |
XXIX | 229 |
XXXIX | 316 |
XL | 330 |
XLI | 335 |
XLII | 337 |
XLIII | 348 |
XLIV | 355 |
XLV | 368 |
XLVI | 394 |
XLVII | 406 |
XLVIII | 411 |
XLIX | 413 |
L | 458 |
LI | 477 |
LII | 483 |
LIII | 486 |
LIV | 490 |
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Page 76 - That the established Government has no more right to call itself the State than the smoke of London has to call itself the weather. That we had rather face a Civil War than such another century of suffering as the present one has been.
Page 7 - No truce or parley mitigated the strife of the armies. The wounded died between the lines: the dead mouldered into the soil. Merchant ships and neutral ships and hospital ships were sunk on the seas and all on board left to their fate, or killed as they swam. Every effort was made to starve whole nations into submission without regard to age or sex.
Page 17 - My dear Winston,' replied the old Victorian statesman, 'the experiences of a long life have convinced me that nothing ever happens.
Page 138 - With some over-simplification, one might thus say that 'classes' are stratified according to their relations to the production and acquisition of goods; whereas 'status groups' are stratified according to the principles of their consumption of goods as represented by special 'styles of life.
Page 107 - Having been an Imperialist, I became during those five minutes a pro-Boer and a Pacifist. Having for years cared only for exactness and analysis, I found myself filled with semimystical feelings about beauty, with an intense interest in children, and with a desire almost as profound as that of the Buddha to find some philosophy which should make human life endurable.
Page 18 - The leading figures of Society were in many cases the leading statesmen in Parliament, and also the leading sportsmen on the Turf. Lord Salisbury was accustomed scrupulously to avoid calling a Cabinet when there was racing at Newmarket, and the House of Commons made a practice of adjourning for the Derby.