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mplete the campaign. What is -less
known is that at the close of the Southern African conflictthis same general
had been discreetly retiredand he had then entered businessdealing in
shipments from Southern Africa. I relate this because some ten years after
the conflictthat is to say when the wounds of bereavement had only
superficially healedmy father was called into Mr John Silvers's study to be
told that this very same personage - I will call him simply 'the General' - was
due to visit for a number of days to attend a house partyduring which my
father's employer hoped to lay the foundations of a lucrative business
transaction. Mr Silvershoweverhad remembered the significance the visit
would have for my fatherand had thus called him in to offer him the option
of taking several days' leave for the duration of the General's stay.
My father's feelings towards the General werenaturallythose of utmost
loathing; but he realized too that his employer's present business aspirations
hung on the smooth running of the house party - which with some eighteen
or so people expected would be no trifling affair. My father thus replied to
the effect that while he was most grateful that his feelings had been taken in
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