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As the chairman of the London-based PEN International which protected the rights of authors to write without being intimidated, H. G. Wells met Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in 1934 and told him, “the free expression of opinion—even of opposition opinion, I do not know if you are prepared yet for that much freedom.”

Kahane published both Tropic of Cancer and Lady Chatterley's Lover decades before they were available in their authors' home countries. Others have been given the credit for breaking down the doors of literary censorship. But, way back in the 1930s, Jack Kahane had unscrewed the hinges.