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Fortnight ago, threatening his own and still other resignations, Censorship Head Sir Walter Monckton asked the Cabinet to do three things: 1) have the Ministry rather than the Foreign Office direct over seas news and propaganda; 2) give the Ministry direct access to news sources in stead of spoon-feeding it with handouts; 3) give the Ministry authority to release news. Said the Cabinet...
...Ministry actually got nothing it asked for, but none of its officials resigned. The Prime Minister made them hang on by stating categorically that it would be unpatriotic to do so. Director-General Monckton summed up their feelings: "If the powers that be want us to attack a tank with a pitchfork, we'll go to it. But don't start telling us our pitchforks are tanks, because we know the difference...
This week, in the great white Bloomsbury building which the Ministry took over from the University of London, the Censorship Department went to work under a new head: Sir Walter Monckton, 48, onetime legal adviser to King Edward VIII. Each Government department now issues its own news as it did before the War, has its own censors, responsible to Sir Walter. From their Whitehall offices bulletins go to Bloomsbury. There newsmen write dispatches, submit them to a second board of censors before they can be released...
First to greet them was Admiral Sir William James, commander in chief of the Portsmouth naval base. Second and third were the Duke's trusted friend and former equerry, Major Edward Dudley Metcalfe, and Sir Walter Monckton. The Duke & Duchess had planned to drive straight to Major Metcalfe's country place, but delay and blackout made them decide to spend the night in Portsmouth with Sir William. That evening, among war bulletins, British Broadcasting Corp. spent exactly ten of its preciously pronounced words on the arrival...
Quick to sense the unpopularity of this move with the general public, at least two British subjects announced that they would defy the ban, go to the wedding anyway: Sir Walter T. Monckton, Attorney General for the Duchy of Cornwall, and Major Edward Dudley ("Fruity") Metcalfe, onetime equerry to Edward as Prince of Wales, who will serve as Best Man. The fact that Sir Walter is a rich man with an important private practice and that Fruity Metcalfe has retired from the Army did not spoil the popularity of the gesture. Later the Counselor of the British Embassy at Paris...