ON BOOSTING
“Have we not reached a point at which the public foot might be, quite reverently, but quite firmly, put down?” asks Mr Guedalla, discussing the tendency to put monuments to public men in the parks. “Wo have preserved the park for people, not for statues. Field-marshals ramp outside. Prime Ministers who know their Jplace remain at Westminster. Aiid if our men of letters insist upon admission, let us concede to them one simple stone inscribed, ‘To the Unknown Writer.’ From what I know of literary men, there will bo little competition.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 8 January 1930, Page 5
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93ON BOOSTING Hokitika Guardian, 8 January 1930, Page 5
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