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LITERARY BLACKOUT

“Yes,” said the shopman, courteous' and harassed in the Christmas rush: “you will find the important books of the year on the tables in the centre of the shop.” I eyed them with disfavour, recounts Lord David Cecil, writing in "The Times" Literary Supplement. Politics predominated: first-hand accounts of Nazi Germany, heavy tomes of diplomatic reminiscence, piles of bright-coloured pamphlets, their titles announcing in heavy type how effectively they diagnosed present discontents and expounded plans for their alleviation. How should the muse of letters make her voice heard amid this thunderous beating of right and left wings? And indeed her voice this year is a faint one.

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https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19410502.2.49

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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 May 1941, Page 5

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109

LITERARY BLACKOUT Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 May 1941, Page 5

LITERARY BLACKOUT Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 May 1941, Page 5

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