"Shaw presumes that his friend Stalin has everything under control. Well, Stalin may have made special arrangements to see that Shaw comes to no harm, but the rest of us in Western Europe do not feel quite so sure of our fate,especially those of us who do not share Shaw's curious admiration for dictators."
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J. B. Priestley, The War - And After, in Horizon magazine (January 1940), reprinted in War Decade: An Anthology of the 1940s (1989) by Andrew Sinclair
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