POET WARNS MANKIND
“For us poets an astonishing thing is that precisely in this century all the most devilish forces have made their appearance. Segregation, racial, religious and linguistic discrimination, power-mania, persecution. All this makes me fear that this trend is going to continue and increase. To my mind this is the greatest danger in the coming decade, and I think the greatest immediate task before mankind is to find salvation from it or else tragedy will fall on European civilisation.” Gyula Illyes, Hungary’s national poet, in a 8.8. C. World Service broadcast.
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Press, Volume CX, Issue 32352, 18 July 1970, Page 6
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