Epilogue
KISCH ENGLISH
All shades of Left-wing opinion, from pale pink to the deeper vermilion, were represented at the dinner given to Herr Egon Kisch by the Writers’ League in Melbourne. Interest, in the main, was centred on discovering some of the benefits, alleged or actual, to be derived from affiliation with the Writers’ International to which, according to Herr Kisch, every literary man of European repute belongs. The only literary men of any importance in Europe, he said, held Left-wing or Socialist views (says the “Age”). There were few, if any, writers of international fame who were not members of the Writers’ International. Ludwig Rehn and several German Left-wing authors were in prison. Hans Falada was the only Nazi author of any repute, and even the Nazis looked down on him
