NO LONG FACES
CHEERFULNESS IN BRITAIN CRITICISM OF BROADCAST MUST WIN THE WAR (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyrig-ht) LONDON, August 5 “British men do not wage war with long faces,” says the DirectorGeneral of Information, Mr F. W. Ogilvie, in a letter to the Times, replying to criticism of the ‘‘bad taste” of the broadcast commentary by Mr Charles Gardiner of the air battle over the Channel, near Dover, on July 15. “The high gravity of the German troops is unknown to them,” he adds. “Theirs is a spirit of cheerful realism, and in a total war is not that the spirit of the British people as a whole?
“Cheerfulness will keep breaking in on ordinary men and women, who, after all, must win this war. We mean to keep it in our programmes, too.
“It would be a bad day for the listeners, who are the great mass of the ordinary people of this country, if the British Broadcasting Corporation, from deference to the gravity of the situation, stood with bowed head and arms reversed.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21184, 6 August 1940, Page 5
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176NO LONG FACES Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21184, 6 August 1940, Page 5
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