It must have been a historic meet-jing at Moscow when Mr. H. G. Wells met Comrade Stalin and ' discussed world problems and communist theories so earnestly that, the telegram states, they were surprised to find the interview had lasted three hours. One the great scientific novelist and romaneer, social reformer and idealist, lever torn between scientific and social schemes for a readjustment of the existing order, and the other, of a Communist state, seeking progress by political theory constantly modified by the pressure of economic and social conditions the new experiment originally challenged—no two interesting figures could ever meet in conference. 'Undoubetdly, in the Soviet authorities' welcome to Mr. Wells there is fan air of patronage which might dull the Keen, penetrative mind of the Visitor who, despite his earlier works which were treated as mere scientific fantasies, has reflected in recent years more acutely than any other writer the cataclysmic changes which have overcome the world and the mind of man. Nevertheless, his impressions of [the great Soviet experiment will be eagerly awaited by public trained to Jexpec: comprehensive deductions after reading his "Outline of History.
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