A Debate between G. Bernard Shaw and G.K. Chesterton
In the Chair Mr. Hilaire Belloc
Relayed from the Kingsway Hall.
(By arrangement with G.K.'s Weekly.)
Some time ago Mr. G.K. Chesterton held a public debate with Lady Rhondda, at which Mr. Bernard Shaw was in the chair. In his concluding speech, Mr. Shaw mentioned that he was not impartial, as he and Mr. Chesterton agreed in their outlook - a fact that Mr. Chesterton was understood to deny. This evening's debate (part of the proceeds of which will go to help the King Edward's Hospital Fund for London) should help to elucidate the point. Do they agree - the medievalist and the futurist, the Englishman and the Irishman, the Distributist and the Socialist, the Catholic and the prophet of the Life Force? One thing at any rate that they have in common is the inability to talk in public without being both amusing and illuminating, so this evening's debate is certain to be interesting to everybody.