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...mail we received from them recently. They read TIME for pretty much the same reason that Americans do: to keep themselves informed on the significant news of the world. But they have another important reason: they want to know about America and about the American viewpoint. Writes Brendan Bracken. Britain's wartime Minister of Information...
...Bracken's letter, and hundreds of others like it, came to us as a result of our putting TIME back on a prompt delivery schedule to the British Isles. For four long years our readers there have stuck by us through one of the most miserable delivery schedules on record. Owing to wartime exchange restrictions, we could send only 3,077 copies of TIME to Britain...
...doubted the interest and loyalty of our British readers after four years of mistreatment, they-like Brendan Bracken-reassured us by their response (hundreds of them wrote in with uncharacteristic British enthusiasm) to the first issue of TIME that reached them by airmail. They were happy to get TIME on time, and they said so. Some excerpts from their letters...
...English readers Bracken, Wells, et al. TIME'S thanks for their patience and for their unflagging enthusiasm...
Cruikshank, a Fleet Streeter since his teens, was the News Chronicle's U.S. correspondent for eight prewar years, then returned to edit the Cadburys' evening Star (which, with its morning sister, is known as the "Cocoa Press"). In 1941 Brendan Bracken drafted him to head the American Division of the Ministry of Information...