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From New International, Vol. 4 No. 2, February 1938, p. 63.
Transcribed & marked up by Einde O’Callaghan for ETOL.
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The unfortunate experience of the London News-Chronicle which sought permission from the Communist Party of Great Britain to reprint serially John Reed’s Ten Days that Shook the World, is reported in the London Evening Standard (Nov. 12, 1937). |
THIS contemporary account of the Bolshevist uprising was written by John Reed, the American Communist, who was a close personal friend of Lenin. When he died in 1921 he left the British copyright in his book to the Communist Party.
When the News-Chronicle approached the copyright owners for permission to serialize the book it was gladly given. The Communists asked no fee, and made only one stipulation – that all reference to Trotsky should be eliminated from the text.
Confronted with this modern version of Hamlet without the Prince of Denmark, the Liberal organ abandoned the project.
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