Reblogged from my newspaper collection blog
(mhill46-holdthefrontpage.blogspot.co.uk)
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H.G. Wells, the author of classics
like ‘The War of the Worlds’, ‘The Invisible Man’ and ‘The Time Machine‘,
succeeded John Galsworthy as President of the P.E.N. Club in 1933. The Club had
been founded in 1921 to promote ‘friendship & intellectual co-operation
among writers everywhere’.
Wells
was a complicated man, basically a Socialist who, like many intellectuals of
the 1930’s, let his hatred of Fascism lead to a blind approval of Stalinist
Russia, but he was also anti-Semitic and believed in eugenics; both Fascists
traits.
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