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Welles's Oblivion...
...keep his eyes open. As president of the National Athletic and Cycling Association, he led the Irish Olympic team to Los Angeles in 1932, five years later marched off with a green-shirted "Irish Army" to help Franco against "Communism and anti-Christ," returned to Dublin and oblivion...
...Versailles Orlando had been one of the Big Four - with Wilson, Lloyd George, Clemenceau. Then Wilson had stubbornly refused to grant Fiume to Italy. Orlando had failed to overcome Wilson's objection, and the resentful Italians had driven their Premier into political oblivion...
...Against Oblivion is not exactly a fictionized biography, since letters and diaries carefully document it, but it includes a few invented scenes and speeches. The work of Sheila, Countess of Birkenhead (daughter-in-law of Severn's grandson) it is a labor of love in more senses than one. The affection for Keats with which it is suffused, its portrait of the gentle, sturdy, unworldly, innocent and perceptive Severn, its wonderful picture of Severn's happy family life make it a biography as tender and moving as any in recent literature...
Severn was the only person with Keats when he died. On Feb. 24, 1821, Severn wrote in his diary, which is included in Against Oblivion: "He is gone. He died with the most perfect ease. He seemed to go to sleep. On the 23rd, Friday, at half-past four, the approach of death came on. 'Severn- I - lift me up for I am dying. I shall die easy. Don't be frightened! Thank God it has come...