PRAISE FOR MARY WEBB
MR. BALDWIN'S CHANCE WORDS Mr. Stanley Baldwin, at the annual dinner of the Worcestershire Association, is reported to have said: "I will stand in a white sheet for a moment. I once said a few words in a chance speech about a book, that gave me pleasure. The consequence of that speech made me resolve never to mention another book, and 1 never have done it since. That book was written by one Mary Webb, and long after, when I was staying with a friend in Shropshire, I was told that charabancs were run out from Birmingham labelled, 'To the Mary Webb country.' "It is a most appalling consequence to a few chance observations, and people sometimes wonder at my reticence. But I learned my lesson, and I have since practised a reserve which has enabled me to to bed with a clear conscience, which is worth all the popularity in the world."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21296, 24 September 1932, Page 9 (Supplement)
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