IMAGINARY HISTORY

Hawera Star, Volume L, 9 February 1931, Page 8

IMAGINARY HISTORY

would rr have happened? (United Pres 3 Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) LONDON, ‘Fob. 4. Messrs 'Longman* have published. :i remarkable jou d ’esprit, entitled “If It Happened Otherwise.' or “.Lapses Into Imaginary History,’’ by .Mr Winston Churchill, Mr G. K. Chesterton, Father Ronald Knox, and others. Mr Churchill discusses wliat would have happened if tin* Confederates had won the Battle of Gettysburg, the American Union had been, broken,, and fifty years later the British Empire had become reunited with the .States. Mr Chesterton speculates as to what, would have happened if Don .Tuan had mil cried 'Mary Queen of Scots’. Harold Nicholson asks- the eonsequvuecs of Lord Byron becoming King of Greece. ,f. C. Squire wittily inquires the result-- of the discovery in 1930 that Bacon really wrote Shakespeare; thus tiie Dovertown Council renames Shakespeare's Clill. Bacon's Cliflie, wliile Stratford is ruined tis a place of pil-

Finally. Father Knox cunt ribules an answer to the question: If the general strike had succeeded, would the newspapers have passed under a trade union censorship? Father Knox parodies the news coin ms thus produced.