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Ernest J. P. Benn : Confessions of a Capitalist

'Did you agree with the scheme the owners put before the coal commission? It looked to me very black if after all those nearly impossible, if not quite impossible, things had been done, the coal trade was still to be run at a loss. But really Ernest Benn's book has made me realize so clearly what a hopeless track we are steering on that I don't feel as if anything drastic enough would be done.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Bell      Print: Book

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