'BRITAIN’S DIM DICTATORSHIP’ IS NOVELIST’S VIEW
NEW YORK, Sept. 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 look.” This is part of an 11-page report on “Britain’s dim dictatorship by the Left-wing novelist, John Dos Passes, published in the magazine “Life” today. Mr Dos Passos’s impressions alter 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 individuul, 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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Greymouth Evening Star, 27 September 1947, Page 8
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