IMAGINARY HISTORY
WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN
IF IT HAD HAPPENED OTHERWISE
LONDON, 4th. February. i Messrs. Longmans have published a remarkable jen d'esprit entitled; 'flf It Had Happened Otherwise," or "Lapses . Into Imaginary- History," by Mr. Winston. Churchill, Mi-. G. K. Chesterton, Ronald Knox, and others. Mr. Churchill discusses what' would have happened if the 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 j what would have happened if. Don Juan had married Mary Queen of Scots, j Harold Nicholson asks the consequences of Lord Byron becoming King of Greece. . ' . J. C. Squire wittily inquires the results of the discovery in 1930 that j Bacon really wrote Shakespeare; thus the Dovertown Council ; renames Shakespeare's Cliff, Bacon's Cliffie, while Stratford is ruined as a place of pilgrimage. Finally Ronald Knox contributes an answer to the question: If the general strike had succeeded, would the newspapers have passed under a trade union censorship? Ronald. Knox p'arodiea the news columns thus produced.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 31, 6 February 1931, Page 9
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182IMAGINARY HISTORY Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 31, 6 February 1931, Page 9
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