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MR. H. G, WELLS WAS DENOUNCED AS AN AGNOSTIC REPUBLICAN AND THEREFORE A BAD REPRESENTATIVE TO SEND TO THE UNIT- ED STATES WHEN LORD WINTERTON (CON., HORSHAM) ASKED IN PARLIAMENT WHY HE GOT AN EXIT PERMIT TO LECTURE THERE.
"For years Mr. Wells has been saying to the British public: 'You will always be fools and I will be a gentleman,' and the people good- humouredly acquiesced.
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"It does not matter what he says for home con- sumption; what concerns me is granting such a man an exit permit in the certain knowledge that he will use all his publicity power to denigrate [blacken] his country abroad and, of all places, in the United States, where, in this hour of our great- est peril, we enjoy more sympathy for our unity and moral strength than ever before in our history.
"Wells has a peculiar and bitter | States his sneers at Labour po- attitude towards what is after all liticians and his description of the accepted faith 8 millions of
Lord Halifax, the Foreign Secre- people in the world, and not the everything that an
tary, as "the quintessence of least in the United States.
Englishman should not be." "Avowed opponents of Christi- anity get short shrift from the hands of electors in the
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States. Yet we allow to go there, as representing Britain and British. literature, a
who. prides himself on being the opponent of | all religion, who says there is no such thing, and that it is me-" dieval superstition."
Lord Winterton repeated the "sins" of H. G. Wells as reported in his lectures in. the United
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why we should cancel his permit? We are fighting for liberty of expression. There is no half- way house. No M.P. has the right to preclude the expression of. opinion of Mr. Wells or any one else."
""Praying General”
Mr. Magnay. (Liberal-National, Gateshead) interjected that Wells had no right to sneer at Gort as a "praying general."
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Mr. Shinwell: "But he is a pray- ing general, just as you are praying politician. We don't think the less of him for being so de- scribed."
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Turning to Mr. Peake, Home Office Under-Secretary ()
responsible for the grant of exit permits, Mr. Shinwall said: "You have a choice. Either you can leave Wells ovJr. there along with Gracle Fields and-who is It-?" Mr. Shlowell hesitated-- "Mark Antony?”
Some alle cald, “You mean Monty Banks."
Mr. Shinwall corrected him- salfamid great laughter, and added: "And. Noel Coward, and I believe there is an honourablo member of this House who Tinda Hollywood more salubrious than this blouse."
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An M.P. "You mean Hawaii." "Either you can leave him there But what really hurt him was fulminating against praying gen- Wells's description of Lord Gorterals and incompetent politicians should he attack a man with such even in London or you as "our praying general" "Why there are incompetent politicians a brilliant record of gallantry and bring him home" (Mr. Peake leadership as Lord Gort?" he shook his head)-"or put him in cried.
concentration.. camp. That "Lord Gart's crime, in Wells's would please those who are eyes is that he dares confess agnostics and not republicans.
himself to be a Christian-that he belongs to a creed which Mr. Wells, in lila declining years, attacks with such vituperation, "Lord Gort is an easy target because Wells knows that he can not answer as a serving soldier. I can imagine on eighteenth century atheist saying: 'Sir, these are indecent words, nay, they are worse; they are blackguardly?"!
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"No, it won't wash," exclaimed Mr. Shinwell after this picce of rhetoric. "Le H. G. Wells talk and talk. Let the Noel Cowards coquette, and the Gracie Fields show their graces, Let them play about as they care. We have a war on in this country, and we have to win it.”
Mr. Peale suld it would be fatal if the idea got about in the United
It made one doubt, said Lord States that we would give per- Winterton, whether Mr. Welly is mits only to those whose still in the full plenitude of his were favourable to the present views mental powers. He hoped that British Government, might be the reason,
It must be left to the good: sanse
A more sinister explanation for the. American public to assess was his resemblance to French the value of Mr. Wells's vlews writers, who, before the collapse for themselves.
of France, sherred at Christian generals and at republicans,
-Mr. Wello, like these Franch men, professed his hatred of Mi:lorism, But, if "Mition, 'hadi. an enemy in the world whem ho need not worry about it. was H. G. Wells, sald, Lond Winterton, because Walis wea helping Hitler, “
Opinion in Parliament WAN divided, and Mr. Wells found a champion In, Mr. Shing Seabom), who said,
has frequently attacked the our. Parts Buf vso thes Wintestani Is that
"It is important for this.coun- try that as many dollars 96 possible should be earned by British subjects," Mm Peake added: "They may earn those dollars primarily for them- salvam, but the Treasury that those dollars are glabed at Its disposal in exabange *atanling,
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