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Article: LETTERS: Kipling's translators If only we understood Kipling
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 22, 1995
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IN HIS article on Kipling's "If" ("If we could keep our heads .
. .", 15 October), Geoffrey Wheatcroft mentions Juan Primo de
Rivera as a translator. Surely he means Jose Antonio Primo de
Rivera, the founder of the Falange Espanola, the only political
party permitted in Franco's Spain. Jose Antonio was shot by the
Republicans in Alicante jail at the beginning of the Spanish Civil
War. Thereafter the Falange regarded him as the chief martyr in its
roll of honour and the fading inscription Jose Antonio ...