British withers will be wrung by the Mahan decision to bar British plays, operas, music hall turns oF Symphonies from performance in Italy another answer to the application of sanctions. Wrung not because of the bar but because of the two exceptions. To justify the omission of Shakespeare from the ban on the ground that he was "an Elizabethan son of Italian renaissance," sounds all very well, but the fact is that there was no writer so definitely English in his regard for foreigners and, 10 judge from his sentiments so often put into the mouths of his characters tone of the most pro-English of the is not sufficient to of Tlalian renaissance any more than the fact that he wrote "Timon of Athens," and "A Midsummer Night's Dream* would entitle Greece Claim him as a son of its culture. Mr. Shaw comes in for the dubious distinction of being considered "the most brilliant and anti-British of all living British dramatists." The dis-ingushed author will probably indulge in no small amount of elfin chuckling to read so naive a des leription. The fact that he continu ly laughs up his sleeve at the British, their ways of thinking and methods of doing things, is not sufficient grounds for suggesting he is anything but a proper Briton at heart, "To take 'a more serious view of this reprisal it is suggested that the works of Italian writers might be bareed from Britain, with the possible exception fof Dante who wrote so engagingly about that Hell, which someone of other is so bent on raising.
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