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...British press censorship was revealed when Neville Chamberlain admitted ordering newspapers not to print a story that...
Rift between anti-appeasers in the British Foreign Office and Prime Minister Chamberlain reached near-scandalous proportions during the Munich Crisis. Some Foreign Office officials, the Prime Minister was certain", were even leaking confidential information to the press. After Munich some officials who handled press relations were suddenly shifted to other jobs, but Neville Chamberlain was by no means sure he had plugged all the leaks...
...plugging job he began last November by plugging in the shrewd conservative Earl of Perth as "general supervisor" of the Department, naming him "director-general designate" of a Ministry of Information into which the Publicity Department would be converted if war came. Groundwork for this wartime Ministry, Mr. Chamberlain revealed, was being laid by Home Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare (Hoare-Laval Deal...
...Neville Chamberlain invited himself to the conferences culminating at Munich, and took great pride in having preserved "peace in our time." But Nazis never thanked him for handing them Czechoslovakia on a platter. Instead, they have poured hatred on his head. Last week came the unkindest cut of Nazi ingratitude. Supersoapboxing Propaganda Minister Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels addressed a meeting of 15,000 students and workers in Berlin's vast Sportspalast after the news had been broken that, since the Polish Government has banned seasonal emigration of farm hands into Germany, German students will be drafted to work...
...offset this unpleasant fact Dr. Goebbels denounced "intellectuals" who "constantly nagged" the Nazi Government during the Czech crisis and asked: What would have happened had Neville Chamberlain not come to Munich? Dr. Goebbels roared: "I say he came because he had to come. He came because we had him so cornered that he was-to use a chess term-in check...