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2.1.41 [George Orwell]

January 2, 2011 in Allenby, Margesson, Political, War-time, Wavell, blitz, cabinet by orwelldiaries

The rightwing reaction is now in full swing, and Margesson’s entry into the Cabinet is no doubt a deliberate cash-in on Wavell’s victory in Egypt.  Comically enough a review of Wavell’s life of Allenby which I wrote some months ago was printed in Horizon just at the time when the news of Sidi Barrani came through.  I said in the review that as Wavell held so important a command the chief interest of the book was the light it threw on his own intellect, and left it to be inferred that I didn’t think much of this.  So the laugh was on me – though, God Knows, I am glad enough to have been wrong. [1]

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