Posted by Alan Hakim on April 24, 2003 at 06:43:43 from 212.137.206.194 user awhakim.
In Reply to: Re: AR's Politics (was: Ransome on TV and Radio) posted by Duncan on April 23, 2003 at 09:27:02:
I have been reading Memoirs of a British Agent, by R.H.Bruce Lockhart, in which AR makes an appearance. Lockhart describes him:Ransome was a Don Quixote with a walrus moustache, a sentimentalist, who could always be relied on to champion the underdog, and a visionary, whose imagination had been fired by the revolution. He was on excellent terms with the Bolsheviks and frequently brought us information of the greatest value. An incorrigible romanticist, who could spin a fairy-tale out of nothing, he was an amusing and good-natured companion. As an ardent fisherman who had written some charming sketches on angling, he made a warm appeal to my sympathy, and I championed him resolutely against the secret-service idiots who later tried to denounce him as a Bolshevik agent.
No party politics in that summary, though a clear political view.
(The book is in the TARS Library.)