THE PRESS IN WAR TIME!
SPEECH BY LORD BEAVERBROOK.' "i London, Juno 5. : The Overseas Press Circle entertained ! Lord ISeaverbrook (.Minister for Propaganda) at luncheon. 1 His Lordship- said the Ministry .for. Information would al- i ways endeavour to obtain tho.greatest latitude for the Press,..recognising the value of propaganda. Thero was a sense ' of detachment from tluVwar on tho part of Dominions distant from the roar of the guns and aeroplane attacks, and therefore it was tho duty of the Press representatives to interpret the situation here and let their people know: tho determination with which tho English 'werS ' using'their resources. Britain had-con- j tributed by taxation' 27 per cent, of the ' war expenditure. Ho hoped tho people overseas would devote everything to tho conflict, lost Britain should be overcome by an insidious enemy. There was no place in the. hemisphere for Priissianism 1 on one side and the English-speaking races on the other.—Aus.-N"./,. Cable Assn. 1
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 223, 8 June 1918, Page 7
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