Word: papere
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Typographers noted that Britannia is printed from slightly smeary type on thin gloss paper, the text interspersed with small photographs and cartoons (a few large) and the price six pence...
Naturally an even more potent fulmination burst from the Liberal Daily News: " 'The White Paper' is a record of bungling procedure unworthy of the collective intelligence of a home for mental defectives. It has excited the justifiable suspicion of the civilized world...
...bringer-forth of the new Goddess is Novelist Gilbert Frankau. He is a militant chappie, who when lecturing to U. S. women's clubs (TIME, May 31, 1926) often alluded to his gallant War record. Today, as Editor of Britannia, he has the potent backing of Inveresk Pulp & Paper Ltd., a shrewd firm which sells its product to the public direct, by the stratagem of owning the London Daily Chronicle and such famed magazines as the Tatler, Bystander, Graphic, Sphere?and now Britannia...
...potent indeed is Britannia's backing that Editor Frankau has declared: "There is no limit to the money we are able to spend! It cuts no ice in an undertaking of this size. This paper is going to reflect the new spirit of England?the business England of today. They may call Britannia a 'jingo weekly' if they like! After all patriotism is the biggest factor in any successful endeavor. The idea is that everything going into Britannia, from machinery to brains will be all British...
Smart readers began to have qualms when they read the first "Fighting Frankau Editorial": "The incessant toil, the incessant thought which have gone to the making of this 'new paper' . . . have given me joys and pains, compared whereto the joys and pains of mere novel writing seem vapid...