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Next day in the House of Lords Minister of Information Lord Macmillan gave out details. Of the Ministry's famed 999, some 450 staff members remained to write and distribute propaganda. The new department took over 399 censors and press relations officials. By discreetly adding these two figures, the most doddering peer could realize for himself that only about 150 of the Ministry's personnel had actually lost their jobs...
Centre, however, cannot be easily disposed of as a small and lucky team. It was the same college from Danville Kentucky which trounced Harvard a number of years back, when the Crimson was tops in the country. And it was from that college and that team that Be MacMillan, the present Indians coach, sprung...
...alone in ridiculing Lord Macmillan's Ministry was the House of Commons. In the Minister's own House of Lords next day Opposition Whip Lord Strabolgi poked gentle fun at him: "Lord Macmillan's position is that he is lying on his back with three Defense Ministers sitting on his chest." (Laughter.) There was need, said Lord Strabolgi, for a man with "journalistic flair" to make the Ministry a powerful department as it was in World War I under Britain's late, great news baron, Lord Northcliffe...
COLLECTED POEMS-Robert P. Tristram Coffin-Macmillan...
LINES AT INTERSECTION - Josephine Miles-Macmillan...