[{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford184","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Nov 5th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford184","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"W.B. Yeats, Politics","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford184","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford184.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffxx 4\n\nhe said that at least I had taken the trouble\nto outline a position,even though he was agin\nit. The other boy,who said he was writing a\nthesis,devoted his very long letter to Yeats'\npolitical views and maintained that W.B.Y. xxx\nwas a Fascist. He quoted other parts of the\nYeats' letter to Ethel Mannin from which I\nhad drawn. Fortunately I had the volume by me,\nso I quoted still more from the Yeats-Mannin\ncorrespondence to show that even if Yeats had\nFascistic tendencies he could not properly\nbe described as a Fascist. The whole thing\nhas escalated into quite a controversy.\n\nBreaking off here for a visit to Mr.\nTim Rishworth,B.D.S. (N.Z.)... Back from\ndentist who explained the position very well.\nHe gave me the choice of a nasty business to\nget all of the nerve out or to stick it in\nthe hope teat it will settle down. Chose the\nlatter.\n\nxxxxxxxxx re politics\nTake even today with its\nrash of strikes... The aim is not to improve\nthe \"intolerable lot\" of the workers but to\nuse that excuse to create confusion,bring\nabout collapse and then have a Left-wing\ntakeover. God knows,I would like to see\n\"democracy\" work - i.e. a reasonable life\nfor everyone,regardless of class - but\nunfortunately it doesn\u2019t seem to be working.\nSupport for the Right in my case is largely\na matter of approving the bad to avoid the\nworse. And I work on the premise that man\n(including R.G.) is sinful:culpable pride etc.\n","Type":"Text"}}]