SNOWBALL LETTERS.
BERNARD SHAW'S VIEWS,. A Leeds man, who received a snowball letter bearing in its chain of names that of Mr. Bernard Shaw, wrote to Mr. Shaw asking whether the signature was genuine, lie received the following characteristic reply " I have never signed nor passed on a chain or snowball letter of any kind, and I have never lost an opportunity of urging that the criminally thoughtless people who start or forward such things should be executed without benefit of clergy. " 1 should be glad to have my views made known as widely as possible, as some liar has put my name on a list of persons accompanying a chain letter now in circulation which, if its silly intention were carried out, would break the backs of all the postmen and bankrupt all the post-masters-general in the world."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20520, 22 March 1930, Page 8 (Supplement)
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139SNOWBALL LETTERS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20520, 22 March 1930, Page 8 (Supplement)
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