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National Archives of Australia - Margaret George Award - Nicole Moore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17) |
 | | Dr LH Allen, chair of the Literature Censorship Board that banned it, acknowledged the huge popularity of Winsor’s blockbuster, already a hit in the United States in 1944, but noted sternly in his report on the book: ‘popularity is no sure guarantee of worth. |
 | | For the purpose of tracing obscenity bannings, the most important holding of the papers relating to the Board is the comprehensive, sequential collection of reports filed by the members that record their decisions on titles. |
 | | In 1953, it was released by the Board as an ‘outstandingly brilliant study of the psychological and social effects of war and postwar conditions’, [27] Allen finding that its ‘sexual passages [were] handled with the utmost refinement’. |
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