View source for From Geoffrey Pyke (23 July 1936)

<div style="text-align:right;">6 GORDON SQUARE<br />
W.C.I.</div>

<div style="text-align:right;">23rd July, 1936</div>
Dear Dr. Polanyi,
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I am most grateful to you for all the trouble you have taken about this matter.

I have come across the quotation, reproduced by the Friends of Europe which is approximatively what I had in mind and which I reproduce here in case anyone ever asks you the same question again.

:“One acted on the very correct principle that the size of the lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed, for the vast masses of a nation are in the depths of their hearts more easily deceived than they are consciously and intentionally bad. The primitive simplicity of their minds renders them a more easy prey to a big lie than a small one, for they themselves often tell little lies but would be ashamed to tell big ones. Such a form of lying would never enter their heads. They would never credit to others the possibility of such great impudence as the complete reversal of facts by others. <u>Something therefore always remains and sticks from the most impudent lies,</u> a fact which all bodies and individuals concerned in the art of lying in this world know only too well, and hence they stop at nothing to achieve this end.”

:With many thanks once more,

::Yours sincerely,

<span class="hand-written" style="margin-left:200px;">Geoffrey Pyke</span>

Dr. Polanyi<br />
72 West End Lane,<br />
N.W.6.
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