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Dispatches for the Colonial Office

                                          “You in the West…”

“You in the West don’t know what it’s like to be ruled by peasants.”


                                              Oh, yes, we do.


Cf. P. 138, Balkan Ghosts, Robert D. Kaplan

With this Parthian shot at our kakistocracy I say good-bye for a week or so to you, dear fellow scribblers and scriveners and dreamers and artists and intellectuals (that is a fine, useful word) and lovers of freedom, for like Bilbo I’m off on an adventure!