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From: "Bruce Page" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2002 12:39 PM
Subject: Kipling and Baldwin
> From Bruce Page, 32 Lauderdale Tower, Barbican, London EC2Y 8BY
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> I've only just signed up as a member of the Kipling Society, and
> already I'm asking the editor and secretary a tedious question. This
> is probably to be explained by the fact that I'm a journalist.
>
> In a long history of media organisations, I have to quote Stanley
> Baldwin's celebrated (notorious?) by-election speech in which he
> accused Lords Beaverbrook and Rothermere of seeking 'power without
> responsibility, the prerogative of the harlot through the ages'. John
> Barnes' standard work on Baldwin mentions that the Prime Minister got
> the phrase from Kipling, who of course was his cousin. (He wrote to
> ask permission for this some days before the speech was given.) It
> appears that Kipling had used the phrase earlier, but Barnes doesn't
> way when or where.
>
> Can you put me in touch with any member of the Kipling Society who
> might be able to point me toward the facts of the matter?
>
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