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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 88, 4 December 1931, Page 2

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Letter from H. G. Wells to Mr. Tneodore: — Dear Ted, — I read what you say ■ about the creation of a world state or federation of nations and univerj sal brotherhood. I think you might ' have acknowledged me. I invented that idea exactly in "H.G. Sees it Through," and elaborated it in "Three Spasms and a Scream," while you will find it again in "The New Aitchgeewelli," and it is treated at some length in "The Life of Sir H. G. Thisold." In the "Bunkography of Mr. Parboli," it is true, I let the idea drop . for a moment, but I did not mean that any seedy Colonial Treasurer should pick up what wasn't lost, and use it as. his own. We authors have our royalties, after all. Who steals Mr. George Bernard Shaw steals trash, my dear Ted, but who so robs me of my visions of 3000 years into the future of our race is just the sort of man who would issue £18,000,000 fiduciary notes and nationalise the banking of Other people's money. Note that this idea has H. G. Wells blown in the bottle and stamped on the cork, and don't do it again. Go and steal from the "Encyclopaedia Britannica," where all the politicians go for their ideas.