GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
Sir.—Your leader writer in his ex cathedra statement that, as a polemical writer, Shaw was “not remarkable for originality of thought" delivers a knock-out blow to the lagions who formerly served at the Shavian shrine. This assertion will hardly affect New Zealand where he is rarely read (most prefer the racing news) but is bound to have wide-flung repercussions in the brave old worli and hasten the decease of his spiritual corpus shortly after his earthly disposal. Does one see the dust in his own grave? G.B.S. is' chuckling The pill, "that the Labour victory of 1945 was the decision of a generation educated on Shaw,” sticks in the throat. Pure moonshine! The mass of the electorate knows nothing of Shaw except what is handed out to the penny press. The vote was the genuine expression ‘of the will of a long-suffering people.—Yours, etc., G. S. VINYCOMB. November 4, 1950.
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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26263, 7 November 1950, Page 5
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