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... whole populations were thrust into the midst of them . The mighty educated states involved conceived with reason that their very existence was at stake . Germany , having let Hell loose , kept well in the van of terror ; but she was ...
... whole populations were thrust into the midst of them . The mighty educated states involved conceived with reason that their very existence was at stake . Germany , having let Hell loose , kept well in the van of terror ; but she was ...
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... whole power in his own hands , instead of dividing it with a restless rival , entrenched in the leadership of the House of Com- mons and the control of the public purse . It is never possible for a man to recover his lost position . He ...
... whole power in his own hands , instead of dividing it with a restless rival , entrenched in the leadership of the House of Com- mons and the control of the public purse . It is never possible for a man to recover his lost position . He ...
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... whole , and set against the background of the countless political battles Churchill has fought for over half a century , a certain underlying consistency does in fact emerge , though at every turn WINSTON CHURCHILL - SKETCH FOR A PORTRAIT ...
... whole , and set against the background of the countless political battles Churchill has fought for over half a century , a certain underlying consistency does in fact emerge , though at every turn WINSTON CHURCHILL - SKETCH FOR A PORTRAIT ...
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... , even in those days , was in touch with some of the scientific ad- visers who during World War II dominated his entourage . Yet on the whole he still gives thanks to be alive WINSTON CHURCHILL SKETCH FOR A PORTRAIT 15.
... , even in those days , was in touch with some of the scientific ad- visers who during World War II dominated his entourage . Yet on the whole he still gives thanks to be alive WINSTON CHURCHILL SKETCH FOR A PORTRAIT 15.
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... whole , the prevention of the supreme catastrophe ought to be the paramount object of all endeavor . " The Churchill of 1925 is a convinced supporter of the League of Nations , a Wellsian progressive , almost a pacifist : all this ...
... whole , the prevention of the supreme catastrophe ought to be the paramount object of all endeavor . " The Churchill of 1925 is a convinced supporter of the League of Nations , a Wellsian progressive , almost a pacifist : all this ...
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.