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...Prime Minister set the Ministry for Home Security to work. Vaguely Sir John Anderson promised ventilation, light, warmth. Department stores opened their basements, and when the big John Lewis & Co. building was hit, 700 trooped safely out to another shelter. To keep people happy, Minister of Information Alfred Duff Cooper announced plans for portable cinemas against dreary winter evenings. The Arts Theatre Club and ballets moved their performances to the lunch hour. Winston Churchill each day perused particulars of civilian casualties and property damage. He accelerated systems of pension and relief, and marshaled 2,200 doctors and nurses against epidemics...
Major General Thomas Holcomb, U. S. Marine Corps commandant, issued an order promoting Private James Jolly Plum ("Duffy") Duff, bulldog mascot of the U. S. M. C., to the rank of corporal...
Britons have also been anxious to get rid of prying Minister of Information Alfred Duff Cooper, and his house-to-house canvassers of public opinion, contemptuously nicknamed "Cooper's Snoopers." In that case Lord Beaverbrook was expected to assume the overlordship of the Ministry of Information...
...Silent Column was the name which Minister of Information Alfred Duff Cooper gave to a propaganda campaign urging secrecy in all military matters. Nothing new and decidedly sensible in a war in which traitors serve as military vanguards the movement was tolerated as long as it remained within reasonable bounds. But recently Duff Cooper intensified his drive until it became preposterously exaggerated. Three cinema shorts, a deluge of new colored posters, quarter-page advertisements in 108 newspapers and 72 magazines kept dinning: "Never pass on knowledge about the place or extent of air-raid damage; don't trust enemy...
...saying to soldiers: "You are bloody fools to wear that uniform." Others were punished for joking about how the swastika would look over the Houses of Parliament, speculating about flying 40-ton Nazi tanks, grousing that parashots were "damned rot." Cases like these crystallized resentment against Minister of Information Duff Cooper, already unpopular, because he sent his son to safe haven in the U. S. while poor children were kept home. Said the Daily Mail: "If the Minister of Information is to kill rumor he must put something in its place...