Sad events in Galicia.

[Elizabeth Boylston-Morris]

Before Linda steps in to, rightly, request a discontinuance of war-related
verbal sorties in this listserv, I'd like to ask:
Does anyone know the source of the quotation   "Patriotism is the refuge of
scoundrels"?  Lillian Hellman used the quote in her book "Scoundrel Time"
which referred to her being investigated and questioned by the un-American
Activities Congressional Committee in the fifties.
By the way, she also wrote that the "white man's burden" was a fraudulent and
contrived doctrine to justify taking over other peoples' land and destiny.
At the advent of the Women's Liberation Movement in the seventies, the same
doctrine, by then thoroughly discredited,  was decried as another disguised
attempt to continue to control women's lives.
Oh well!!
Elizabeth Boylston-Morris
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