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| | Rebecca West & the tragedy of Yugoslavia by Richard Tillinghast (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | Rebecca West was perhaps better informed about the Nazis than her contemporaries: her husband, who was part Jewish and had lived in Germany as a child, had business interests that took him often to Germany and Central Europe. |
 | | But then Dame Rebecca made her entrance, in a gold-braided kaftan, supported on a malacca cane, two or three pairs of spectacles swinging on cords round her neck, and proceeded to give the visitor the time of his life. |
 | | I suspect that Rebecca West, in rejecting suffering and sacrifice as a redemptive part of life, was kicking against the misery of her own early years, including the endless difficulties presented by her unhappy love affair with H. Wells. |
| www.newcriterion.com /archive/10/jun92/west.htm (3785 words) |
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