MINISTER SPEAKS
PUBLICITY QUESTION. British Official Wireless. RUGBY, September 15. Speaking in the House of Lords, the Minister of Information, Lord Macraillan, said ho was in entire agreement with what had been said as to the true functions of the Ministry of Information. ."It is a Ministry of expression, not a Ministry of repression, least of all a Ministry of depression," he said.
The Minister said he appreciated fullv both the need for news for the public and the reluctance of the defence services to talk of what they were doing, but in our democracy even the fichting services must become publicity-minded. He had an assurance from the defence Ministers of every co-operation.
Comparing the Ministry with that in Berlin, Lord Macmillan said Britain suffered under a handicap, for most of the propaganda and most of the information from Germany were lies. "I would rather we gave less information and true information than issue to neutral and foreign countries a vast mass of material which is unreliable and untrue," he added.
In the long run, the Press would appreciate that the information from the Ministry consisted of authenticnews and authentic statements onlv.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 219, 16 September 1939, Page 10
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