“BRITAIN’S DIM DICTATORSHIP”
AMERICAN NOVELISTS IMPRESSIONS
(Rec 8.30 pjn.) NEW YORK, B«pt 25. “Under a Government of their own creation, the British people are gradually being strangled to death in a morass of poverty and ineptitude.
Everything has a distant, stagnant lopk.” This is part of an 11-page report on “Britain’s dim dictatorship* by the Left-wing novelist, John Dos Par-ros. published in the magazine “Life” to-day. Mr Dos Passos’s impressions after six weeks in England include: “Officials are pallid men, with countenances blank from sitting out too many conferences.” Of Parliament he says: “In spite of a certain amount of argument in the style of a great debating club, as measure after dictatorial measure comes up to curtail the already frail liberties of the individual, the party machine rolls ponderously on.”
Mr Dos Passes says that sacrifices are closing down on Britain like a vice slowly and inexorably tightened.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25300, 27 September 1947, Page 9
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