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An air raid siren for the Left.(Notebook)(growth of pocket-sized monthly magazine Lilliput)

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In London in 1937, Stefan Lorant, a Hungarian photojournalist who had served time in a Nazi prison, started a pocket-sized monthly magazine which combined English humor with European style. It was called Lilliput. Throughout the Second World War it entertained readers in bomb shelter, canteen, and mess with its unique mix of stories, articles, photography, and cartoons.

On the magazine's third birthday, in the August 1940 issue, as London came under sustained night attack, the editors wrote:

 
   When we started Lilliput, in July 1937, we 
   planned for the first time an intelligent 
   magazine for intelligent people, at a popular 
   price. It has been ...
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