Esmond romilly biography

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(1) Esmond Romilly, Out of Bounds (1934)

We attack not only the vast machinery of propaganda which forms the basis of Public Schools, and makes them so useful in the preservation of a vicious and obsolete form of society; we oppose not only the semi-compulsory nature of the Officers' Training Corps, and the hypocritical stuff about character building - we oppose every one of the obscure restrictions, and petty rules and regulations.

(2) Esmond Romilly, Out of Bounds (1935)

I had a violent antipathy to Conservatism, as I saw it in my relations.

I hated militarism, as this meant the O.T.C., and I had read a good deal of pacifist literature. Like many people, I mixed up pacifism with Communism. While I was in London at the beginning of the Easter holidays in 1933, before crossing to Dieppe, a street-seller sold me a copy of the Daily Worker.

I was excited and intrigued, and gave an order to have a copy sent each day to Dieppe whil