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...Baptist lay preacher from Britain had sat for 25 days in the southeast wing of the viceregal palace, preparing to liquidate the richest portion of empire that history had ever seen-to end the British Raj, the grand and guilty edifice built and maintained by William Hawkins and Robert Clive, Warren Hastings and the Marquess Wellesley, the brawling editor James Silk Buckingham and the canny merchant Lord Inchcape, and by the great Viceroys, austere Curzon and gentle Halifax. The Raj was finished: scarcely a voice in Britain spoke against independence; scarcely an Indian wanted the British to stay; scarcely...
...Blake wrote the Marriage of Heaven and Hell. ...I have written of their divorce." Thus ruddy, balding British Author Clive S. Lewis (The Screwtape Letters, etc.), a convert (1930) from well-bred skepticism to the Church of England, explains the purpose of his new book, The Great Divorce (MacMillan...
Unhappily, such matters are not well taught at Harrow and Sandhurst, where 41-year-old Brigadier Derek Schreiber, chief of staff to the Governor-General (H.R.H. the Duke of Gloucester) was educated. When the Brigadier married fashionable Viscountess Clive last fall his valet, ex-Corporal Ernest Cyril Field, persuaded himself that the marriage would mean an increase in his duties. He asked for a raise. Schreiber declined, Field departed...
...Always known as Sir Bernard, to avoid confusion with older cousin Rear Admiral Henry Clive Rawlings, recently in service as a convoy commodore...
What makes "Colonel Blimp" stretch to 146 minutes is its tremendous scope, its three generation historical footnote to the Law burlesque. Beginning called Clive Candy through out of the Bear War, the picture plumps down a punch bowl full of a atmosphere, all very English and very genteel. This was when wars were just "Summer maneuvers" so far as most people were concerned, and the British military set were having a dandy old time...