Word: britain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the war began, Britain's Ministry of Information kept Britain practically without information for three weeks. Then public opinion revolted, British newspapers raged at the Government for keeping silent, Lords and Commons made open fun of the censors. So Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain quickly set up a new Department of Press Censorship and News Distribution, which occupies the same building that housed the Ministry, and is mostly staffed by the same censors. Here are the first pictures to show them at their work, no longer bungling quite so badly as they...
...Gerald L. Brockhurst (Great Britain), Hipolito Hidalgo de Caviedes (Spain), Edward Hopper and Eugene Speicher...
...make German ears tingle, Britain's BBC thrice daily broadcasts reproachful propaganda in German. Daily the Reich's radio warriors retort in English. Sample of Nazi frightfulness...
France, inquiring for 20,000 trucks, placed a $3,500,000 order for 2,000 with Yellow Truck & Coach. Studebaker landed another French truck order, White Motor Co. another. Goodrich had orders for 645,000 feet of A. R. P. fire hose from Britain, Hewitt Rubber for 1,300,000 feet...
Into a war so gingerly regarded from the start by almost every mature writer of Britain, many writers were going while yet immature and unknown. Nobody could foresee who might survive it, nor what writing might come of it. Yet there were many to remember Wilfred Owen, the round-faced, silent young officer who was killed a week before the Armistice in 1918, and the few terrible poems published after his death...