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  • Executive Veto: Let's face it, a book with a very explicit anti-war message had no chance of getting published in Great Britain during World War II, paper shortage or no paper shortage.
  • What Could Have Been: White wanted it to be published as the fifth and final part of "The Once and Future King". His publisher disagreed on the basis that the wartime paper shortage would prevent the book from being published and because of the fifth part's anti-war message. When ''The Once and Future King" was published in 1958 it was as a tetralogy in one volume, without "The Book of Merlyn". But White salvaged the episodes with the ants and the geese and put them in "The Sword in the Stone" during Arthur's childhood.

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