THE NEW SHADOW AMICUSVERITAS

POLITICAL ANIMALS--Lord Cornwallis--British Commander who surrendered at Yorktown to George Washington--Cornwallis later became Viceroy of India

The Military band played the "World turned upside down"

Admiral Arleigh (31 Knot) Burke--Of swedish ethnicity-legal immigrant to the US, Arleigh's grandfather changed the family name from "Bjorkgren" because "Burke", an Irish name  sounded more American.

Arleigh didn't finish High School(18) in Colorado, because of the 1918 Influenza epidemic, which started with Army recruits at Fort Riley, Kansas, and spread overseas during the last year of WW1, then spread from Army to Navy camps, then across the US to civilians.

Worldwide, over 500 million people were infected

John Le Carre( pen name) born David John Moore Cornwall worked in British Intelligence Mi 5 and Mi 6.  He Created George Smiley--Smiley's People based on his experience in the

intelligence sector of the British Government

Maurice Bishop, Communist Leader in Grenada, who was executed in a coup involving the Reagan Administration

Oct 19th  Births-Deaths & events relevant to US(a)Lewis Mumford--Admiral Adrleigh  ( 40 knot) Burke US Navy--John Le Carre--Lewis Mumford