BRITAIN ABROAD
DIFFUSION OF CULTURE. FOREIGN OFFICE AIM. EXTENSION OF OUTLOOK. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (British Official Wireless.) Received Julv 29, 10.15 a.m. RUGBY, July 28. Asking the House of Commons to vote £IO,OOO to the Foreign Office to increase ihe staff of its publicity department, and another £IOO,OOO for various publicity activities such as films for exhibition, speakers, lecturers and the preparation of literature, Sir Samuel IJoare (Home Secretary) said the Ministry of Information was a shadow organisation which would function only in war time.
Sir Samuel Iloaro added: “Our objective is to diffuse British culture abroad and to extend the British outlook abroad. It is necessary, in my view, that the world should know about the greatest experiment of a constitutional character the world lias ever known —the British Commonwealth of Nations.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 204, 29 July 1939, Page 9
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