BIB_ID
440833
Accession number
MA 6168
Creator
Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950.
Display Date
London, England, 1914 November 13.
Credit line
Purchased, 1979.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 25.4 x 20.3 cm
Notes
On stationery with the letterhead "10 Adelphi Terrace. W.C."
Provenance
Purchased from H.P. Kraus, 2 January 1979.
Summary
Regarding his essay Common Sense about the War (which was published on November 14, 1914 in the New Statesman) and its possible inclusion in King Albert's Book; writing "I have not said a word in dispraise of England. I have excused England by explaining that the wretched little gang of piffling snobs who are mismanaging this war are just as insensible to the needs of England as to the needs of Belgium"; critiquing the War Office; disagreeing with one of Caine's edits; referring to Belgian atrocities committed in the Congo and towards German prisoners of war in France; mentioning the burning of Louvain by German troops (World War I) and the Siege of Izmail (the Russo-Turkish War).
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