...a reluctance to recognise that today's safety and comfort were bought fifty years ago by means which… — George MacDonald Fraser
...a reluctance to recognise that today's safety and comfort were bought fifty years ago by means which today's intelligentsia find unacceptable, and from which they wish to distance themselves.
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