BRITISH CULTURE
PROPAGANDA’ PROPOSED MORE VOTES SOUGHT (British Official Wireless.) Reed. 1.30 p.m. RUGBY, July 27. In asking the House of Commons to vote £IO,OOO to the Foreign Office to increase the staff of its publicity department and l another £IOO,OOO for various publicity activities such as films, exhibitions, speakers, lecturers, and the preparation of literature, the Home Secretary, Sir Samuel Hoare, said that 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 British outlook abroad. It is necessary, in my view, that the world should know about the greatest experimenilCof a constitutional character that the world has ever Icriown —the British commonwealth of nations.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20002, 29 July 1939, Page 6
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