British Authors Want Ban on Fair Lifted
From The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia
British Authors Want Ban on Fair Lifted is an article published in The Berkshire Evening Eagle on 23 february 1914.
British Authors Want Ban on Fair Lifted
Dr. Conan Doyle from The Sphere
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle forwarded to Premier Asquith a petition from prominent British authors urging British participation in the Panama-Pacific Exposition in 1915.
The petition dwells on the small expenditure involved compared with the great harm from deterioration of the good relations existing between Great Britain and the United State, The signatories include William Archer, Mgr. Robert Hugh Benson, Henry Arthur Jones, Miss Mary Braddon, John Masefield, Sir Arthur Pinero, Owen Seaman, Humphry Ward and Silas Hocking.
