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A leftist (he was wounded in the Spanish Civil War), he nonetheless includes all leftist creeds among "the smelly little orthodoxies which are now contending for our souls." A vigorous anti-imperialist (as a youth, he served in the Burma police), he has the courage to affirm that an imperialist...
Freud in the Suburbs. Intellectuals, Orwell implies, may snigger if they will at Dickens' sentimentality and Kipling's imperialistic fervor, but they had much better spend their time getting wise to the far worse perversion of ethical values that is creeping up right under their disdainful noses. This...
Died. Major General Lionel Charles Dunsterville, 80, prototype of Kipling's cool, Latin-quoting Stalky, and last of the immortal trio* of Stalky & Co., in Torquay, Devonshire. As a full-grown soldier he was still the Kipling hero, in World War I bluffed the Turks out of the Baku...
* "McTurk" was George Charles Beresford (died 1938); "Beetle," Kipling himself (died 1936).
Died. Lieut. General Alexander Mc-Carrell ("Sandy") Patch, 55, defender of Guadalcanal, veteran tactician whose monument was his U.S. Seventh Army's "left hook" from the Riviera north around the Alps, south into Austria; of pneumonia; in San Antonio. A disciplinarian with "a temper like the devil before dawn...