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Since La Línea had no destroyers to sink or petrol dumps to burn, for once the world had a gauge of the accuracy of Italian Air Force communiqu...
Britain's war news may officially be credited to Bloomsbury, but the Services and other Government Departments issue all communiqués, do all but routine censoring. And all propaganda that the Ministry issues is directed by the Foreign Office. This leaves the Ministry of Information in the unhappy position of having no information to call its own. Sick of trying to serve their country in a vacuum, some officials of the Ministry have resigned. Last month Lord Beaverbrook, himself a publisher, took the Ministry briefly in hand but was lofted to a new job as Supply Minister before...
...somewhat south of Salûm, on the coast hard by the Libyan border. On the second day, British advance forces reached Gambut, 40 miles inside Libya, there claimed to have put to rout an Italian column, and to have destroyed a dozen more vehicles. Both German and Italian communiqués claimed that the attack was broken, and the Germans said their dive-bombers had crushed 60 British vehicles. But both the German and Italian communiques admitted on the second day that the battle was continuing...
...censor ship that envelops remote Asunción, came reports of a Franquista revolt. Colonel Franco's brother Laconich hopped a plane from Montevideo for the Paraguayan capital, but at the request of General Morinigo's Government Montevideo police kept Rafael Franco where he was. A communiqué from Asunción announced that the up rising had been put down "with the help of the armed forces and public opinion," but private reports said the revolution was spreading...
...towering crags of Buda one dawn last week the Hungarian Foreign Office abruptly announced that Premier Count Paul Teleki had just died of a heart attack. Intimates of the Teleki family whispered that Count Teleki had taken poison. Finally doctors who examined the body signed a one-sentence communiqué: "Premier Teleki committed suicide at dawn April...