At last, Kipling is saved from the ravages of political correctness

The Daily Telegraph ^ | May 13, 2003 | Andrew Roberts

[nopardons]

The Brits, after wresting South Africa from the Boers, introduced Apartheid. Until then ( prior to the Boer War ), blacks could and did vote.

It's one thing to laud Kipling's works; it quite another to attempt to make him into another Nostrodamus, when historical fact is in question, and is so easily proven.

[LiteKeeper]

read later

[nopardons]

That's even better, when heard sung ! Now I can't get the song out of my head. LOL

[drjoe]

""Come you back, you British Soldier; come you back to Mandalay!"
Come you back to Mandalay"

And so I hear the great Alexander Scourby narrating the script of the series 'Victory at Sea' intoning these lines. Or I think I do ... ...

[Bernard Marx]

That's even better, when heard sung !

Yes, that's how I first learned it. As I read through it now I hear the music in my mind.

[Bernard Marx]

And so I hear the great Alexander Scourby narrating the script of the series 'Victory at Sea' intoning these lines. Or I think I do .

You may be right. I recall Scourby (IMHO the best narrator there ever was) and the series, but I don't remember Mandalay.