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A Year of Prophesying : ウィキペディア英語版 | A Year of Prophesying
''A Year of Prophesying'' collects 55 newspaper columns written by H.G. Wells in 1923 and 1924. After the extraordinary success of The Outline of History, Wells was in great demand for commentary on current events. He wrote regular columns first for the ''Westerminster Gazette'' and later for the ''New York Times'' and the ''Daily Express''.〔David C. Smith, ''H.G. Wells: Desperately Mortal: A Biography'' (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1986), p. 279.〕 The articles in ''A Year of Prophesying'' were written for the McClure Syndicate. ==Pointed Predictions==
Wells's most recent biographer has observed that "Considering their topical origin, the views they take have worn surprisingly well. Wells predicts an eventual war between the USA and Japan; he is disappointed by Labour's brief stint in power; he attacks the gold standard, Italian Fascism, the French occupation of the Ruhr and the lenient sentence handed out to Hitler after the Munich putsch; he advocates compulsory schooling to at least the age of sixteen, nursery provision for four-year-olds and global conservation policies to protect whales, gorillas and elephants."〔Michal Sherborne, ''H.G. Wells: Another Kind of Life'' (Peter Owen, 2010), pp. 266-67.〕
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