Members may be interested to read a piece by our fellow-member and biographer of Kipling on p. 20 of today's SundayTelegraph.  Under the headline 'Jingoism was only one front in Kipling's War', the subsidiary headline is 'The Nobel laureate was not the reactionary in a sola topi of popular prejudice - his works should be celebrated this year'.
It can be found on-line at:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/11005978/Jingoism-was-only-one-front-in-Rudyard-Kiplings-war.html
Alastair Wilson