FOREIGN PUBLICITY
EXTENDING BRITISH OUTLOOK
(British Official Wireless.) (Received July 29, 11.10 aim.)
RUGBY, July 28. Asking the House of' Commons to vote £10,000 to the Foreign Office to increase the staff of its publicity department and £100,00CF for various publicity activities such as films, exhibitions, speakers, lecturers, and preparation of literature, the Home Secretary said that the Ministry of Information was a shadow organisation which would only function in wartime.
"Our objective," he said, "is to diffuse British culture abroad and 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 has ever known—the British Commonwealth of Nations.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 25, 29 July 1939, Page 10
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