Britain To Intensify Publicity
RUGBY, July 28. Asking the House of Commons to vote £IO,OOO to the Foreign Office to increase the staff of its publicity department. and another £IOO,OOO for various publicity .activities, such as films, exhibitions, speakers and lecturers and the preparation of literature, the Home Secretary, Sir Samuel Hoare, said the Ministry of Information was a shadow organisation which would only function in wartime. He added: “Our objective is to diffuse British culture abroad, and to extend the Britsih outlook abroad. It is necessary, in my view, that the world should know about the greatest experiment of a constitutional character the world has ever known—the British Commonw r ealth of Nations.”
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Northern Advocate, 31 July 1939, Page 9
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