The National Review, Volume 77W.H. Allen, 1921 - English literature |
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Page 30
... political event , and the public were on tip- toe with excitement as to what the day might bring forth . But with the total eclipse of the Legislature by the Executive and the constitution of a Personal Despotism at No. 10 Downing ...
... political event , and the public were on tip- toe with excitement as to what the day might bring forth . But with the total eclipse of the Legislature by the Executive and the constitution of a Personal Despotism at No. 10 Downing ...
Page 35
... political The latest Recruit assets is the Westminster Gazette , which has reverted to its pre - war politics , only rather more So. It applauds every pro- German manifestation in Downing Street , and is only annoyed with the Coalition ...
... political The latest Recruit assets is the Westminster Gazette , which has reverted to its pre - war politics , only rather more So. It applauds every pro- German manifestation in Downing Street , and is only annoyed with the Coalition ...
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... political significance into them . But it does make one regret that British Admirals , who are the very best of British Ambas- sadors - partly because they are not politicians -- are made so little use of by a Government which , judging ...
... political significance into them . But it does make one regret that British Admirals , who are the very best of British Ambas- sadors - partly because they are not politicians -- are made so little use of by a Government which , judging ...
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... political treatise , not because there is a single original idea in the book , not because it is even an ingenious exposition of current political and economic fallacies - for it is none of these things - but because it affords an ...
... political treatise , not because there is a single original idea in the book , not because it is even an ingenious exposition of current political and economic fallacies - for it is none of these things - but because it affords an ...
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... political weapon for gaining their ends . Finding all their ideas unworkable in practice , and having sometimes sufficient honesty not to carry out a policy they know to be disastrous , but not sufficient to admit that they have been ...
... political weapon for gaining their ends . Finding all their ideas unworkable in practice , and having sometimes sufficient honesty not to carry out a policy they know to be disastrous , but not sufficient to admit that they have been ...
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