Sinclair Lewis, America’s Nobel Prize novelist, today came under the ban of the Hungarian Fascist Youth in a revival of pro-Nazi activity by a section of the Hungarian press, the Havas News Agency reported.
The novels of H.G. Wells and Thomas Mann, British and German authors, were condemned along with those of Lewis for their “democratic spirit.”
“It is absolutely essential to gag all liberal and democratic literature,” the rightist newspaper Uj Magyarsag declared. It added that certain books by Sinclair Lewis and Thomas Mann “are in complete contradiction to the thousand-year-old Hungarian constitution.”
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