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Southland Times, Issue 24106, 20 April 1940, Page 15

Admirers of W. B. Yeats will welcome the Oxford University Press’s announcement of a forthcoming collection of letters written by him to Lady Gerald Wellesley between 1935 and 1938. A few-months ago British publishers were assailed by H. G. Wells in an article in The Fortnightly. It is now the turn of authors, including the accuser himself, to be castigated in another of the leading reviews. Among men of letters, says The Nineteenth Century and After editorially, there is very little understanding of the simplest issues in foreign affairs. It brings this charge impartially against men of all shades of political opinion, for it goes on to specify H. G. Wells, Bernard Shaw, Harold Laski, Norman Angell, Julian Huxley, Lancelot Hogben, Yeats Brown, Dean Inge and J. Middleton Murry as writers with a considerable following who do not appear to have any perception of what tiie crisis that has culminated in the war is about or of its true .nature.