"The key conclusion Orwell took away from his time in...

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3. "We seem to be moving, drifting, steadily against our will...

...against the will of every race and every people and every class, toward some hideous catastrophe. Everybody wishes to stop it, but they do not now how."

It sounds familiar does it not?

It is a quotation of Winston Churchill made in 1937, from the book referenced in the OP, pg 57. At the time the belief among the upper classes, which included Churchill's own political party, that Hitler was a reasonable guy working, as the London Times editorialized in 1934 after the "night of the long knives" genuinely trying to transform revolutionary fervor into moderate and constructive effort and to impose a high standard of public service on National Socialist officials." Op cit. pg 51.