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From 'The Celebrated "H.P." Manufactures including the famous "H.P." Cottage Grates'. Hardy & Padmore Ltd., Worcester Foundry, Worcester. 1939.

’Hey don’t worry. I am gonna handle it, he won’t get away with this. Just let me talk to Lydia and Vic, we will find a way. You stay put here as long as you want to. Watch a movie or something, I’ll be back in a few hours and trust me when I say that he’s not gonna bother you again after we’re through with him.’

"It is not the politically backward Moors who should be blamed for being used by the forces of reaction against the Spanish workers and peasants, but the leaders of the Popular Front, who, in attempting to continue the policy of Spanish Imperialism, made it possible for Franco to exploit the natives in the service of Fascism." "Had the Popular Front Government, immediately it assumed office, issued decrees granting the colonial peoples economic and political reforms as a gesture towards self-government and appealed for their support against France, it would have been assured." "For the Moors have no particular ideological interest in Fascism. They, like most colonial peoples, are not concerned with the conflicting political conflicts going on in Europe. To them all whites are alike – a feeling which can hardly be otherwise when Labour and Popular Front Governments oppress and exploit them in the same way as Tory and other reactionary Capitalists. It is only the more politically advanced colonial workers who are able to make a distinction between the white oppressors and the white oppressed. Not until the European workers’ movements, especially in countries with great empires like Britain and France show more solidarity in deeds and not words will this distrust and suspicion be removed."

via Downton Abbey twitter