G.K.C.'S INDEPENDENT WEEKLY CEASES PUBLICATION

The Weekly Review, which incorporated the titles of G.K.'s Weekly, the New Witness and the Eye Witness, has ceased separate publication as a result of its purchase by the proprietors of the Review of World Affairs.
This closes a chapter in the history of independent journalism that began in 1911 when Hilaire Belloc and Cecil Chesterton founded the Lye Witness, which became the New Witness a year later under Cecil Chesterton's editorship.
G. K. Chesterton and Maurice Baring were among its many famous contributors, G.K.C. carrying on as editor after his brother's death and the paper became as widely known for the high literary quality of its contents as for the political repercussions of Cecil Chesterton's articles on the Marconi Scandal and Belloc's exposure of the sale of honours.
In 1926 the New Witness was in turn succeeded by G.K.'s Weekly which brought together a band of famous and new writers who opposed the concentration of property and power and upheld the Distributist ideals of human personality and the restoration of liberty by the return to a propertyowning democracy. An important feature of O.K.'s Weekly was a series of brilliant cartoons by G.K.C. himself and by Thomas Derrick. G.K.'s selfcaricature " The Distributist," in which he presented a hack view of himself in his large hat and black cloak putting the clock back with his Polish walking-stick, was reproduced in the last number of the Weekly Review.
After Chesterton's death in 1936, Hilaire Belloc undertook to edit G.K.'s Weekly under its new title the Weekly Review. He was succeeded as editor in 1937 by his sonin-law, Mr. R. D. Jebb.