| Evidence: | 'In puzzled words Raymond Gram Swing commented in "Harper's Magazine" on "the complete refusal of the British public to face the serious facts of their decline", while Harold Laski sustained this verdict by writing in "The Forum" on Britain's "prevailing temper of depression" and "widespread fatalism".' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Jan 1931 and 31 Dec 1931 | ||||||||||
| Country: | unknown | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Vera Brittain |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | 29 Dec 1893 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | writer |
| Religion: | unknown |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | unknown |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Raymond Swing |
| Title: | Harper's Magazine |
| Genre: | Politics |
| Form of Text: | Print: Serial / periodical |
| Publication details: | Both texts published 1931 in the United States |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 27639 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Vera Brittain | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | Testament of Experience | |
| Place of Publication: | Great Britain | |
| Date of Publication: | 1980 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 67 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Vera Brittain, Testament of Experience (Great Britain, 1980), p. 67, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=27639, accessed: 23 April 2024 | |
| Additional text being read: a feature in "The Forum" by Harold Laski. Vera Brittain cites these texts as examples of how the United States were "sorrier for us than we were for ourselves". |
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