Rotary's most outspoken critics in the 1920s and 1930s included Sinclair Lewis, H.L. Mencken Clarence Darrow, George Bernard Shaw and G. K. Chesterton, who eventually recognized Rotary’s contribution to the community. A fuller account of this period is stated at pages 109-111 of “A Century of Service – The Story of Rotary International. The topic is also dealt with more extensively on the pages of RGHF at www.rotaryfirst100.org/history/headings/world.htm under the title “What the world thinks”
Since those early days Rotary has been represented in the various media forms such as radio, television, cinema and the written word, mainly in…
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