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ALS signed “David,” one page, 8 x 10, personal "David Cornwell" letterhead, September 25, 2006. Handwritten letter to Dr. W. J. Morse on contemporary politics, in part: "Willard, dear man, Well, hell, yes, it c[oul]d scarcely be worse. But as PG Wodehouse sagely wrote: they won’t live forever. Sooner or later, W [George W. Bush] and TB [Tony Blair] are going to come face to face with fate, armed with a stuffed eelskin, and Rummy [Donald Rumsfeld], and the reptilian [Dick] Cheney, and all their boys & girls, are going to take the dive they deserve. Or so I desperately need to believe, & so do you, & so do all sane men & women. Mussolini, no slouch when it came to Fascism, defined his creed as the moment when corporate & state power became indistinguishable. He forgot Church power, & Media power—or simply assumed he’d have them for his own—but W & the neocons, & their little minstrel Blair, had it all going for them: the embedded press, the fulminating Godbotherers, the pigs-in-clover megacorps—all toe-ed the line. WHY? In Europe we really don’t believe in war any more. I wish I c[oul]d say the same for Blair - & Bushie boy, because they love it." In fine condition. Accompanied by the original mailing envelope, addressed in Cornwall's own hand, and photocopies of Morse's letters to him.
Under Prime Minister Tony Blair's leadership, Great Britain joined with American President George W. Bush’s U.S.-led coalition to invade Afghanistan in 2001 and Iraq in 2003, for which both parties received much domestic and international criticism. Among le Carré’s criticisms are the increased influence of both corporate interests and religious fundamentalism in politics.
Our letter paraphrases a quote often, but possibly mistakenly, attributed to Italian dictator Benito Mussolini: 'Fascism should more properly be called corporatism, since it is the merger of state and corporate power.' The quote appeared in the November 24, 2002 column 'Scary Times in the USA,' by Molly Ivens, a political commentator and critic of Bush’s wars. Le Carré also paraphrases a line from British author and humorist P. G. Wodehouse’s 1916 novel Uneasy Money: 'For what is life but a series of sharp corners, round each of which Fate lies in wait for us with a stuffed eel-skin?'
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