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rthstewart) wrote2009-12-28 04:47 pm
Chapter 13, Keep Your Friends Close
Once again in the category of, I couldn't possibly make this stuff up, the episode involving the stolen pamphlet, its frantic copying, and return with no one being the wiser is taken straight from The Irregulars, sans Gryphon.
“Marsh had given him a draft of a pamphlet written by his close friend Henry Wallace. Entitled “Our Job in the Pacific” it summarized the vice president’s postwar goals, among them international control of the airways, economic assistance for the industrial development of Asia, and the demilitarization of Japan. Wallace was also in favor of “the emancipation of colonial subjects” in the British Empire, including India, Burma, and Malaya. Dahl could feel his hair stand on end. Dahl, immediate realized the document’s importance, and knowing that his superiors would want to see it, he excused himself saying that he was going to finish reading it downstairs. He quickly phoned his BSC contact, explained the urgency of the situation, and convinced him to meet him on the corner as soon as possible. The agent knew something was up and materialized on the street in front of Marsh’s house in a matter of minutes.
Dahl sneaked out of the hosue and handed the document through his car window, warning his partner in crime to be in back in half an hour or there would be hell to pay. … [T]he agent went straight to the BSC’s Washington offices to make copies and made it back within the allotted time. Dahl nipped back out, collected the paper, and no one was the wiser.
[The document] created a bit of stir in New York and again when it reached London. Churchill reported could hardly believe what he was reading. … [The] American government’s postwar plans for civil aviation … coupled with the liquidation of the British Empire, inspired Churchill to cataclysms of wrath.
J. Connant, The Irregulars, Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington. pp. 121-122.
It's funny, when I first started mapping this out, I knew I would need a way to record and copy documents, Narnia-style. That problem was solved with the dual action now part of the story. You may also notice that I've stopped signaling the switch between Tashbaan and Washington. I figure the reader is able to slide back and forth as well as Peter is at this point.
So, I hope you'll read and review.
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Anyway, what came to my mind just now is that I'd love to hear more about this discussion between Peter and Lucy. I feel like Lucy could almost help Peter with his issues with the theoretical - after all, didn't Lucy see Aslan as a Lamb? A different body, but the same Form, as it were.
Blargh. It's late and I've been crying over Dr. Who and I'm not even sure any of this makes sense, but there ya go.