FUND OF PUBLIC GOODWILL.
It lias always seemed to he that Britain, in spite of its love of tradition, is the best advanced laboratory of economic and social experiment in the wor Id, says Mr J. B. Priestley, novelist and playwright, writing in the “World Review.” And not merely because it is a very compact and highly organised industrial community. No, the main reason is neither political nor economic but psychological. Of all peoples, American as well as European, the British seem to me to have the greatest common fund of public goodwill. The classes here have not for generations been divided by those abysses of distrust and even downright hatred that exist somewhere in Europe and are, in my view, liable to appear at any moment in the United States.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 16, 30 October 1940, Page 4
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