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From: The Evening Standard (London, England)
Date: 20040405
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PEN chief put to the sword by Joan Smith

SINCE THE 1920s, English PEN has valiantly battled on behalf of journalists who have suffered repression and censorship from Uzbekistan to Cuba. But now the battle has come home.

Members of PEN, whose luminaries have included John Galsworthy, Joseph Conrad, Arthur Miller and Mario Vargas Llosa, are in open rebellion and calling for a vote of no confidence in new President Dr Alastair Niven OBE.

The flashpoint of the dispute centres on author and journalist, Joan Smith, who was blocked from being nominated as the new chairwoman ...

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