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Soon after left-wing British Author J. B. Priestley and his archaeologist wife Jacquetta arrived in Australia last month for a ban-the-bomb peace conference, they decided that they did not like being Down Under at all. About to leave Australia last week, J.B. was still smarting about the reception they had received: "We were cold-shouldered and treated as if we were lepers." Why? "Political cowardice." Details: "I don't like the political atmosphere of Australia. It doesn't smell right to me. I am not a Communist. My wife is not a Communist. We have...
...Aroused. Not since Russian troops crushed the Hungarian rebellion had world opinion been so repelled by a Soviet action. In London 14 distinguished writers, ranging across the political spectrum from T. S. Eliot and E. M. Forster to Bertrand Russell and J. B. Priestley, wired the Soviet Writers' Union not to dishonor the great Russian literary tradition by "victimizing a writer revered by the entire civilized world." In Paris, François Mauriac, Albert Camus and Jules Romains expressed their disgust. The Authors League of America cabled that the U.S. writers most popular in Russia were "those who interpreted...
Shadow of Doomsday. Just such an incident was the theme of J. B. Priestley's antiwar melodrama called Doomsday for Dyson, which millions of Britons saw over TV. At Birmingham University a student "peace committee" put on a showing of the film, The Shadow of Hiroshima. The press reported daily the progress of a survey being made of university students by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Though the results were hardly conclusive -e.g., only 1,330 out of London University's 24,000 students even bothered to answer the questionnaire-the press gave the distinct impression that those...
Conversation (Thurs. 9:30 p.m., NBC). People I'd Like to Have Known discussed by Jacques Barzun, J. B. Priestley, Clifton Fadiman...
...fellow critics. Said the New York Times: "Cards of Identity may be remembered and read for some time to come." The London Sunday Times called it "one of the three or four most mercurially alert, unnervingly funny books to have appeared in the 20th century." Mused Novelist J. B. Priestley: "I should like to know what Mr. Dennis looks like. I do not want to imagine he has been sitting opposite me in a bus. When I meet that eye of his, I want to be ready for it." You will find TIME'S own report on Cards...