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Some years ago I was addressing a luncheon of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce, and giving as was, and is, my habit, a full-blooded, die-hard Tory point of view. The vote of thanks which followed was moved by a gaitered Dean, who took much longer than his proper business required to make my hypocrisy clear to the assembled company. He produced several quotations from The World of William Clissold, 1 published under my imprint in an effort to make me out a humbug.
Happier Days: Recollections and Reflections (London: Ernest Benn, 1949) pp. 160–2.
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Benn, E. (1980). A Name with which to Conjure. In: Hammond, J.R. (eds) H. G. Wells. Interviews & recollections. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-04967-7_15
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