"Adores" strikes me as a curious expression for Duff Cooper's compulsive lechery. "Men and force"--not really a comfortable category. Rudyard Kipling all but wo

"Adores" strikes me as a curious expression for Duff Cooper's compulsive lechery. "Men and force"--not really a comfortable category. Rudyard Kipling all but worshipped force (when exercised by the British Empire), but he took the swastikas off his book covers when the Nazis took it up. Nancy Mitford was attracted to forceful men, but favored socialism; Iris Murdoch urged male friends to go fight for the Spanish Republic, etc.