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Sir: Has Frederic Raphael ever read Rud- yard Kipling? Kipling

was no toady — he refused a knighthood rather than compro- mise his independence and he was one of the very few Englishmen of his generation who were not even slightly anti-Semitic. (Read Jews in Sushan, The House Surgeon, and The Treasure and the Law.)

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