FASCIST BAN ON FOREIGN BOOKS
DANGER IN JACK LONDON. The Under-Seeretary of State for Home Affairs, Signor Michele Bianchi, has issued a circular to the Prefects of Italy’s ninety-two provinces instructing then to check the excessive sale and diffusion of the works of Russian authors such as Gorki, Gogol, Dostoiewski, Tolstoi. and Tourguenieff. and of the novels of Jack London, the “Iron Heel” being especially mentioned. “There is no desire.” says the circular, “to interfere with the legitimate sale of these books at normal prices, whether in bookshops or on bookstalls, but only to check it when contingent circumstances lead to the conviction that the works in question are being diffused with the view of propagating doctrines in direct contradiction with those in which Fascism intends to educate the new generations. When volumes, well-bound and well-printed, are offered at prices which must obviously entail a loss on the seller, there are grounds for welbfojinded suspicions that the sale is being undertaken for illicit purposes, and it should therefore be suppressed.”
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 82, 31 December 1929, Page 9
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170FASCIST BAN ON FOREIGN BOOKS Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 82, 31 December 1929, Page 9
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