Odd Book: The Other Side of the Coin
The Other Side of the Coin is a less than compelling defence of the apartheid-era South Africa by Patience Strong, who I knew only for the queasy Christian sentimental verses she'd written for women's magazines like those my mother favoured.
Strong turns out not only to be a fan of Mary Whitehouse and Enoch Powell; anti-immigration, anti-EU and anti-UN; but also a devotee of that conglomeration of wingnut notions, British-Israelism.
Her South Africa is a land of good Christian white folks and smiling pickaninnies all living happy parallel lives. Opponents of the regime are terrorists.
One of the charming qualities of her writing is its tendency to digress into trivia. She spends several paragraphs expounding the merits of the folding upright calendar, for example, with the same zeal she applies to the myths of apartheid.
[I only found this today and I am about halfway through, so more to follow...]
Strong turns out not only to be a fan of Mary Whitehouse and Enoch Powell; anti-immigration, anti-EU and anti-UN; but also a devotee of that conglomeration of wingnut notions, British-Israelism.
Her South Africa is a land of good Christian white folks and smiling pickaninnies all living happy parallel lives. Opponents of the regime are terrorists.
One of the charming qualities of her writing is its tendency to digress into trivia. She spends several paragraphs expounding the merits of the folding upright calendar, for example, with the same zeal she applies to the myths of apartheid.
[I only found this today and I am about halfway through, so more to follow...]