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Thread #13144   Message #2875874
Posted By: Steve Shaw
30-Mar-10 - 03:33 PM
Thread Name: Origin: Sally Gardens / Salley Gardens
Subject: RE: Origin: Sally Gardens
Yes I know Wiktionary is not very classy and you'll recall that I did express annoyance with it.

To say that Yeats was a fascist is very simplistic. His politics weren't up there with his poetry, that's for sure. It's true he dabbled with non-democratic ideas and occasionally expressed sympathies for Musso, but he turned firmly against Franco in the Spanish Civil War, siding with the Republicans. And he never actually acted out fascism, did he. Not exactly my kind of bloke politically, but let's at least not misrepresent the man.