PEN. Clubs concluded its three-day session at Edinburgh to-day by re. electing Mr. H. G, Wells as ite president for another year.
'A fistic encounter was narrowly averated yesterday when the ire of Senor Mennetti, Italian author, was roused by an irenic remark made by 'M. Louis Pierard, Belgium's delegate.
Speaking in the name of" Italy, Senor Mannetti precipitated the sarcasm by stating, "Italy welcomes not only Fasist writers but those who show that they are sympathetic to the Fascist regime without positively being allied to it."
At this moment, M. Pierard leapt to his feet, saying, "Yes, we all know that Italy is a country of lambs and that we find wolves. everywhere except in Italy." "He then elted the case of Benedetto Croce, Italian Philosopher and writer, whose house was raided by Fascist' police, and whose books were seized and' con-Ascated Senor Mannetti then jumped to the rostrum and threatened the Belgian Gelegate with his fists.
Mrs. Dawson Scott and Mr. Her-mon Ould, the dramatist and poet, were elected as permanent members of the Executive Committee, which also includes representatives "from Austria, Catalonia, "Czechoslovakia, England, France, India, Scotland and the United States.
By the unanimous vote of the meeting, Catalonia was selected for next year's congress.
The final session to-day was a stormy one, marked by heated dis putes between various Continental The frst argument was between. Signor Mannetti, the Italian writer, and M. Louis Plerard, of Belgium, and was precipitated by some. sar-elastic remarks made by the latter, Meyer Called a Liar 'The second scene occurred when 'Herr Ernst 'Toller, the German. aus thor, intreducted a' resolution of protest' to the German Government against the imprisonment of German writers and the burning of their works,
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