GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
Sir,—G. S. Vinycomb, in his letter of November 4, shows a sad lack of knowledge. Does he really think he knows what the mass of the people are reading? I agree with your leading article that as a polemical writer, G. B. Shaw might not have been an originalist. but so very few of us are; po’emicism was. after all, but a sideline to this very great dramatist and critic. I dislike the term “the mass of the people.” Your correspondent infers that these so-called masses are literally soaked with press-produced propaganda and are unable to form their own opinions. New Zealanders have the advantage of a very high standard of news service, and as a thinking people, are capable of judging what we read. Shaw, the iconaclast, shook mankind out of its Victorian slumber. His influence is. and will continue to be, felt the English-speak-ling world over.—Yours, etc:, . Ashburton, November 7, 1950.
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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26264, 8 November 1950, Page 5
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