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Last week newspapermen were anxious to find out what the Ministry of Information would be like under this sanctimonious Scot. As head of British Broadcasting Corp. from 1922 to 1938, he raised its programs to an all-time record for dullness...
Rough as thistle and dour as dominie's broadcloth is the Scottish Presbyterian who last week took over as Great Britain's Minister of Information. No government but Britain's would put direct wartime control of newspapers and newspapermen in the hands of a man who hates newspapers and newspapermen as much as does Sir John Charles Walsham Reith. He is said once to have had a reporter fired for flying an airplane over the Reith house to take pictures. In one of his rare interviews he flatly declared that he never looked at a newspaper...
Because he was loved for his humanitarian spirit by most newspapermen, be cause he was gracious and a subtle theorist, Heywood Broun's own personality had kept harmony in the Guild. But with Broun gone, there was more than a possibility that these subterranean dissensions might erupt into open revolt...
...meetings. Thus he will be another humanitarian, part-time head, and the same executives who now run the Guild will continue to run it. Still unsettled last week was the question that agitates numerous Guildsmen outside Manhattan : the Guild's domination by a small clique of New York newspapermen. Likewise unsettled was Columnist Pegler's question: Communism's influence inside the Guild...
...newspapermen went to talk shop...