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H.G. Wells, the author of classics like ‘The War of the
Worlds’, ‘The Invisible Man’ and ‘The Time Machine‘, succeeded John Galsworthy
as President of the P.E.N. Club in 1933. The Club had been founded in 1921 to
promote ‘friendship & intellectual co-operation among writers everywhere’.
Wells was a complicated man, basically a Socialist who, like
many intellectuals of the 1930’s, let his hatred of Fascism lead to a blind
approval of Stalinist Russia, but he was also anti-Semitic and believed in
eugenics; both Fascists traits.
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