Swallows and Amazons will never be the same again!

[BlueSkyNick]

According to information released yesterday, no longer being controlled as Official Secrets, Arthur Ransome was an MI6 agent, very much 'in bed' with the Russians - so much so that he married one.

I must get up in the loft to find those books and read them again, to see if there are any hidden story lines.

 

[Landale]

Yep, its a story that's been around for I at least 10-15 years in the public domain- I think in an article in the Telegraph, about the time Christina Hardyment had a book published about him.

But before that I recall a comment in the 70s that he was a red under the bed so to speak from some one I knew who wrote for the Morning Star.

It seems suprising he would write the sort of upper middle class books he did.

Hasn't put me off his books though I still leaf through S&W from time to time!

I wonder how many forumites would fall into the same category?

 

[Ohdrat]

You have to remember that at the time the "Russian Experiment" was very much in it's idealistic phase and Stalin had not yet risen to power... There were many Brits that were then sympathetic to "the cause" and saw it as preferential to the not so plesent Czarist regime.. Even commies have to be kids you know!

 

[Sans Bateau]

Probably find some secret coded messages in the pages of S&A!

 

[tome]

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Do you mean MI6 agents? I'm a spy for MFI, but think that NigelCh is in bed with a Russian.

 

[jhr]

The attack on the Houseboat towards the end of Swallows and Amazons is an obvious reference to the storming of the Winter Palace, imho. Plus the treaty of Offence and Defence signed between the Swallows and the Amazons may be a covert reference to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. Or have I got my chronology wrong? /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

 

[Sans Bateau]

Looks like you may have cracked the code!!

 

[Sgeir]

Nothing new in that - he was pally with Lenin and married Trotsky's Secretary. What's relatively new are the released records that suggest that he was actually an MI6 agent, though the jury's out as to where his real loyalties lay - was he MI6 or a double-agent?

 

[catmandoo]

Oh dear ,

I am getting worried about Nancy

 

[ShipsWoofy]

You know, I always did suspect Captain Flint, all that writing notes on his foredeck, the fake robbery, the hidden blueprints and enigma machine.

My God, was Titty in on it too?

 

[Lakesailor]

Arts' boat is in the museum across the road, perhaps I should go and feel under his thwarts?

Am I alone in prefering Titty?

 

[oldharry]

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Am I alone in prefering Titty?

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Couldn't agree more - the pick of the bunch! Apart from Dorothea, the only one with any REAL imagination. Nancy busy organising everyone (just like her GA!) poor old Peggy doing her best but never quite managing to keep up with her sister, John as absorbed (and why not?) in his sailing as the prim Susan was in her housekeeping and campcraft, and Roger being as Rogerish as any small boy can be when so firmly under elder bro and sis's thumb!

Titty was the real romantic - the only one who could really take what was happening round her and weave it into an idyllic (and sometimes nightmarish) daydream, quite unlike Nancys down to earth 'practical Piracy' imposed on everyone who came into contact with her - with the notable exception of the GA!

Arriving for the first time on Wild Cat island, which of them but Titty would turn back to pull the boat up a bit further because "... there might be a tidal wave".

And which of any of the others could possibly have turned out to be the water diviner who saves the day when Nancys 'expedition' is threatened by lack of a water supply in Pigeon Post?

But I always felt a bit sorry for her being packed firmly off to bed by Susan and missing all the fun in 'We Didnt mean to go to Sea', though.

 

[Anwen]

Roger the ships boy always does it for me.

 

[Stemar]

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[claymore]

Susan

Was always my favourite.

 

[Guest]

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Arthur Ransome was an MI6 agent, very much 'in bed' with the Russians - so much so that he married one.

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I thought that MI6 were supposed to be on our side, guess I was being naive. Anyway, I married one too. So wot?

 

[Parsonsheath]

So if you married one, and he did, then how many secretaries did Lenin have?

 

[Guest]

Think it was Trotsky, innit?

 

[Rowana]

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I thought that MI6 were supposed to be on our side, guess I was being naive. Anyway, I married one too. So wot?

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Married one ? A russian or a MI6 Agent?

Or can't you tell us?? Official secrets act an' all !

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[tome]

I've got an invisible message tatooed on my forehead. I think.