Sunday Chronicle July 12, 1936

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I found this article by Winston Churchill in the Sunday Chronicle July 12, 1936, in 2013 in Malaysia on the back of a mirror that needed restoration.

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It was an article by Winston Churchill defending J.D Rockerfeller who made lots of money, saying he gave away a lot of money too.  To give it perspective it was about 3 years before world war 2 started.

The Sunday Chronicle was a British newspaper:

“The Sunday Chronicle was a newspaper in the United Kingdom.                                The newspaper was founded in Manchester by Edward Hulton in August 1885.” (wiki) and it folded in the 1960’s.

Interestingly at the flip side of this page was a short story by Somerset Maugham.

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It is called “One-Bullet Mike”.

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Something comes full circle for me here, as one of Somersets book, “The Razors Edge”, which I found in a corner of a room in India in my early years with half its pages missing was an important book to my personal journey and which I have with me to this day.

It was part story of a young American looking for total freedom: mindbodysoul.

There was something in there of Somersets Journey I think as he tried to evaluate his life’s purpose in one of his books in his later years, “The Summing Up”, where I vaguely remember him writing, “so what have I done with my life but perhaps write one good short story (“Rain”)…….”

but he also said in the summing up:

“The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.”

“Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.”

(http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/W._Somerset_Maugham#The_Summing_Up_.281938.29)

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siri                                                                                                                                            4 Nov 2013.

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