Thursday, June 27, 2002, 9:35:30 PM, :
AW> It is also interesting that the remark doesn't appear in my copy
AW> of the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - but it's quite an elderly
AW> edition - 1962 reprint of the 1959 revision.
It appears in the CD-ROM - Oxford Compendium 3.0 - version thus:
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"Power without responsibility: the prerogative of the harlot throughout
the ages."
Summing up Max Aitken (Lord Beaverbrook)’s political standpoint
vis-ŕ-vis the Daily Express, the latter having said in conversation
with Kipling: "What I want is power. Kiss ’em one day and kick ’em the
next";
in Kipling Journal vol. 3, no. 1, December 1971, p. 6.
Stanley Baldwin, Kipling’s cousin, subsequently obtained permission to
use the phrase in a speech in London on 18 March 1931
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