NEWS & PROPAGANDA
DEPARTMENT SUGGESTED IN BRITAIN. GOVERNMENT NOT IN FAVOUR OF CONTROL. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, November 29. The Prime Minister was asked in the House of Commons today if, in view of the need for straight British news by reason of the intensive anti-British propaganda now being carried on by certain other countries, the Government would consider the desirability of establishing a special Press and Propaganda Department. Mr Chamberlain replied: “The Government attaches great importance to the maintenance of the well-recognis-ed tradition of objectivity and independence in the provision of news by British agencies and would deprecate any action which might be interpreted as an effort to introduce official control.”
The Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Mr R. A. Butler, informed the House that all matters connected with the question of British news services abroad were still under consideration.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 December 1938, Page 7
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