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[Kipling]
[telegrams:] Burwash [station:] Etchingham
Bateman's Burwash Sussex
May 11/33
Dear Buchan,
I have only this week come back from Paris where I have been hung up for more than a month. But, while I had to wait, I read a book called "The Blanket of the Dark" which rested and delighted me. It was also a tour de force. Do you know anything about it?
I expect that the situation has cleared up a bit since your letter to me, which I found here of the 23rd of March.
I have always held that we can trust the Hun, and if we will only believe him, he will save us. He is quite right about his Race and his "Nordic" ancestry, and (did you notice that?) his hints of evolving a "Nordic" religion. He is the world's loup-garou-- the creature for whom it is essential that he must, at intervals function as a wolf. In other words he is the Fenrys Wolf broke loose
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again. (You will remember that when the Aesir tried to bind the Fenrys Wolf, for the first time, he broke loose. IT'S all in the old Sagas.) All his Jew=hunting &c is just to snap the Pack on to the trail once more. When he is ready he will begin again to make the Twilight of the Gods.
Meantime we are disarmed impotent and bankrupt. It is a cheering thought and no wise helped by addressing round-robins to the Son of Loki.
Ever sincerely and gratefully
Rudyard Kipling
P.S. As a matter of detail you'll find the files of '13-14 rather interesting to read. We have gone through the whole thing before -- line for line and almost letter for letter.
