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RAPALLO VIA MARSALA, 12 INT. 5
John Buchan Esq
Dear Sir
One of yr/ novels occasionally drifts into this seaside village, years late but still full of activity. The big game. If you mean it all, what about the game that has been going on SINCE 1919 with, heaven knows, very thin line skirmishing against the Bank of France, and the hook up Creusot, Skoda, Mitsui, and the big press owners suppressing news all over the place?
Things one didn't write in 1920 because they sounded too fantastic, and for which the evidence now seems to be pretty clear.
Certainly material for the novelist, and only the novelist who goes into ten editions CAN break through the press gag. Carnegie's Peace Endowment eating half a million dollars a year and doing NO work on the economic causes of war. That is Nic Butler, despite the fact that the existence of economic causes is known, and that at least one head of a foreign section has tried to draw it to the attention of the central office...
There it is, if you dislike deliberate plotting of murder, the black or gray or whatever tint you like, HAND didn't stop twitching with the treaty of Versailles. The French press is bought and rotten to the hilt. Your english press .... I leave to yr/ own inspection. Find me a paper in england that will print economic fact, and I shall be grateful.
cordially yours
Ezra Pound
[in margin:] I don't quite see how you wrote Standfast unless you believe something or other.
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OLIVER CROMWELL by John Buchan (first impression)
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| 55 | 5 | 'Queen's College'. The College referred to |
| from foot | is now called 'Queens' College' owing to its | |
| double foundation by Elizabeth Woodville and | ||
| Queen Margaret of Anjou and presumably it was | ||
| so at the date referred to in the text. | ||
| 86 | 10 | For 'evey' read 'every' |
| 197 | 3 | 'former's'. Would not some other word be |
| better than 'former's' since literally it | ||
| seems to refer to the 'royalist foot' or | ||
| to 'Waller', which is probably not the | ||
| intention? | ||
| 211 | 15 | 'the Esk'. There are some four Esks in |
| from foot | Great Britain and it is only after some | |
| difficulty that an ordinary reader will | ||
| locate this as the Dumfries river. | ||
| 237 | 6 | 'with ....... ' Apparently this ends a |
| from foot | quotation and the quotation marks have been | |
| omitted. | ||
| 239 | 17 | 'His chief dread'. It is suggested that |
| 'Oliver's' should be substituted for 'His' | ||
| as otherwise the preceding context may lead | ||
| one to think the reference is to 'Ireton'. | ||
| 276 | 15 | 'The Pennine range, ...... ran at right |
| from foot | angles from the western end of the Cheviots,' | |
| It is submitted that this is misleading as | ||
| the Cheviots run, not east and west, but | ||
| roughly from north east to south west, while | ||
| the Pennines run almost due south. Suggested | ||
| to substitute 'southwards' for 'at right | ||
| angles'. | ||
| 276 | 11 | 'One followed the line of Hadrian's wall, one |
| from foot | ran by Settle and Skipton from Lancaster to | |
| York, and a third in the south led from | ||
| Rochdale to Leeds.' After 'Hadrian's wall' | ||
| insert 'from Carlisle to Newcastle', because | ||
| (a) many readers do not know the position of | ||
| Hadrian's wall and (b) the termini of the | ||
| next two roads are given. |
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| 342 | 10 | 'more rhetoric' should apparently read 'mere |
| rhetoric'. | ||
| 352 | 16 | 'He appears to have ordered' For 'He' read |
| 'Oliver' seeing that the preceding sentence | ||
| refers to Wellington. | ||
| 355 | 11 | 'It was a dogma of the elder liberalism |
| from foot | that violence can never achieve anything, and | |
| that persecution, so far from killing a thing, | ||
| must inevitably nourish it. For such optimism | ||
| there is no warrant in history; time and | ||
| again violence has wholly achieved its purpose, | ||
| when it has been carried to its logical | ||
| conclusion.' This does not in terms seem | ||
| quite to harmonise with the statement on | ||
| 360 | 17 | 'he might defend the sword as the sword of |
| from foot | justice and of the Lord, but he knew well | |
| in his heart that no polity of which it was | ||
| the main instrument could endure. // It is | ||
| submitted that something should be done to | ||
| satisfy the reader that the intentions of | ||
| these two passages are not inconsistent. | ||
| 360 | 13 | 'The new regime was not only arbitrary and |
| from foot | unpopular, it was not really efficient.' | |
| This refers to the year 1650 and yet, on | ||
| 326 | 1, | dealing with only a previous year, it is said |
| 'There was a rigid press censorship, a | ||
| comprehensive system of espionage, and harsh | ||
| punishment of deliquents, but it may fairly | ||
| be said that the work of the new constitution- | ||
| makers was efficient.' which seems hardly | ||
| consistent, unless it refers to the making of | ||
| the constituion and not to its administration, | ||
| which does not seem to be intended. It is | ||
| suggested that the two paragraphs might somehow | ||
| be harmonised by a slight amendment. | ||
| 390 | 8 | 'had in better wine'. This presumably means |
| from foot | 'had better wine sent in' but it seems a | |
| little obscure to an ordinary English reader. | ||
| 442 | 7 | 'equity law', It is suggested, should read |
| from foot | 'equity as a legal system', because equity in | |
| English jurisprudence is a term used in contradistinction | ||
| to 'law'. | ||
| 448 | 10 | For 'He' read 'we' |
| from foot | ||
| 494 | 6 | 'herself' appears wrong. If the reference |
| from foot | is to Blake should 'herself ' not read ' himself',? | |
| and if it is to England then | ||
| should not 'English flag' read 'flag of England'? |
