From: joe_f@verizon.net   
      
   This hasn't much to do with Orwell, but seems likely to ring a bell   
   with the types who haunt this group.   
      
   About 50 years ago I read a funny article, probably published in the   
   1920s, by an American who had spent some time in England and had   
   become aware of the existence and political importance of the public   
   schools, which he described as having all the earmarks of a highly   
   successful racket.  He quoted a recently elected prime minister   
   (perhaps the one Orwell called "a hole in the air"?) as saying that he   
   hoped at least half his cabinet would be Old Etonians (or whichever),   
   and speculated on the effect if an American president were to express   
   the hope that at least half his cabinet would be graduates of Andover   
   or Exeter -- or P.S. 136.   
      
   Google is unavailing, but perhaps someone here will recognize the   
   American.   
   --   
   ---  Joe Fineman    joe_f@verizon.net   
      
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