Some of the Hungarians, indeed, found employment and made a living from themselves in Britain. Their former army commanders Klapka and Szabo in particular were in favor of their staying together or as closely connected with one another as possible as was possible, in the hope that if a new insurrection were to start in Hungary they should be ready to join in. Others could not get used to the idea that emigrants were expected to work, and so waited either for a pension similar to what the Poles had received in the thirties or had blamed Pulszky, who had been the best connections, for not having found work.
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Doesn't this sound familiar today? It also gives a reference that human activity and beliefs have not changed much over the last 160 years or so. I am not referring to a class or race here, but only the human as the example. The mentality of the human and the survival "skills" that are being portrayed is what draws my attention to this passage. The conditions and reasons why these people were emigrants were basically identical as well
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