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Comic Relief. Britain's first election campaign in nearly ten years had been punctuated by high jinks. The name-calling between Labor leaders and rambunctious Tory Lord Beaverbrook (who artfully drew most of the opposition fire) continued without letup. Young Tory Brendan Bracken, 44, First Lord of the Admiralty, had more than names flung at him : a milk bottle tossed through the window of his car narrowly missed his head. Laborite A. V. Alexander, ex-First Lord of the Admiralty, narrowly missed the nomination deadline because the car buretor of his car had been "tampered with." Bernard Shaw briefly...
...undercover agents for the Associated Press's Executive Director Kent Cooper, whose talk of global press freedom sounds to the British like pious sales talk for the A.P. The travelers had some sharp words for Britain's Minister of Information (now First Lord of the Admiralty) Brendan Bracken, who "patently did not care much for newspapers or the profession, but he gave it lip service within limitations. He . . . said that in his opinion no [London] editor, with the possible exception of the editor of the Times, had any real voice. . . . Editors, he found were merely office boys...
...Right. Mackenzie King's victory clearly marked a national trend to the right. The old-line Tories, now streamlined and updated as Progressive Conservatives, increased their parliamentary strength sizably (and their national leader, John Bracken, entered the House of Commons for the first time by winning, easily, in his constituency of Neepawa. Manitoba). Even more significant: the election left socialistic CCF losers scattered all over the map. A few months ago many an astute political observer, even among the old-line parties, was willing to concede that the CCF had a good chance of running a reputable second...
...Bracken made some changes. He saw to it that censors blue-penciled only military information. No cut was ever made unless the correspondent was so advised (and the correspondent could argue his case right up to the chief censor, if he liked). In general. Bracken hewed to Britain's World War I propaganda line, the only one that a wartime democracy must content itself with: providing the truth-if not always the whole truth...
Through V-J day, M.O.I, will continue its job, then be absorbed into the Foreign Office. But last week, with its major tasks finished, two of its brightest stars departed. Minister Bracken, 44, a Churchillian favorite, whose unruly red hair looks like a badly made fright wig, moved up into the Admiralty. Tall, sensitive, sensible Robert Cruikshank, 47, head of the American Division, moved to Fleet Street as political editor of the News Chronicle. Britain, which knows better than the U.S. that a necessary evil can merit praise, gave them a "well done...