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'HG Wells had not planned to exchange angry words with the Prime Minister when he came to Australia, but somehow they both managed to insult each other. Nor had he planned to upset the nation's Catholics, yet priests spoke out against him from pulpits around the country. He'd never heard of Robert Gordon Menzies before he reached Australian shores and certainly had no intention of embarrassing him, but he managed to do that as well. He insulted teachers around the country when he accused them of starving and crippling the minds of their pupils; he offended Jewish people by complaining that they kept themselves too much to themselves; and what he said about the leaders of the Germans and Italians came close to causing an international incident.'
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Includes a photograpic portrait of HG Wells.
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