Talk:Rosita Forbes

Wit and Wisdom
Rosita Forbes deserves more than she has so far got on Wikipedia. Just a list of books? I can do better, having read a couple of them. "Conflict: Angora to Afghanistan" advanced the funky idea that Palestinians just never got the hang of Zionism, specifically its policy of buying land: owing to the poor state of Ottoman land records, local Arabs often felt these sales left them victims of sharp practice. Is that true? I don't know, but it is a much more vivid and testable idea than anything else I've heard about these apparently permanently unhappy people. I also recall, in "Eight Republics in Search of a Future", a funny line about Montevideo: Forbes said it was so modern it had more laundries than churches.

British travel writing just isn't what it used to be. (Citations possibly available farther down this talk tab - I sure hope so.) Don't know how the proposition can be turned into a proper encyclopedia article, but it is worth discussing somewhere. I see Wikipedia has an enthusiasts' page titled "Travel Writing" and a long grind titled "Diplomacy," which are to be expected, but nothing like "When Civilized People Stopped Treating Foreigners Like Grown-Ups And Started Treating Them Like Customers." Forbes's and other interwar British travel works were undertaken on that cusp. Before it, foreigners were assumed to be able to determine and serve their own interests, however weird or horrible; after it, foreigners, cast as helpless and easily offended, had to get served, endlessly. Jahutter (talk) 00:01, 28 February 2013 (UTC)


 * She was part of a small group of wealthy racists and Nazi sympathisers in the Bahamas during the 1940s the obvious examples being the ex Edward VII Duke of Windsor and the Swedish Electrolux magnate. Her views on Palestine are the natural extension of that! 2A02:C7C:E0AC:3200:640D:CF4E:2BB:1F5F (talk) 09:46, 19 August 2023 (UTC)

Arthur Thomas McGrath
her second husband was a colonel. it is nothing to be found in the internet about him. was he so unimportant, I don't know. does someone know where I can get more information about him?

2001:16B8:1409:3900:21F0:4365:5508:B936 (talk) 13:04, 19 March 2018 (UTC)

Missing works?
The 'Career' section mentions two works - If the Gods Laugh and Account Rendered - which were turned into silent films. However, they are not listed in the article's 'Works by...' section. Also, the 'The White Sheik (1928 film) article says the film was based on another work by Forbes, Kings Mate, which is also missing from the list. JezGrove (talk) 22:41, 14 June 2019 (UTC)

Water and racism in Eleuthera Bahamas
Described in "A Conspiracy of Crowns" Alfred de Marigny with Micky Herskowitz, Chapter 2 page 29-31. Forbes used her acquaintance with the Duke of Windsor then Governor of The Bahamas to divert a fresh water project away from the impoverished native population to her own house and estate she was building on Eleuthera. Windsor: "Between us, my friend, (de Marigny) the Negroes on the Cay have been living without running water from the time they arrived here. They have managed... Mrs Forbes has spent a tremendous amount of money to build that house of hers..."

The article on Rosita Forbes does not really give a realistic view of this European racist with Nazi sympathies. 2A02:C7C:E048:500:F5C9:8368:332B:7263 (talk) 08:13, 8 April 2023 (UTC)