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...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...
...first official act, the new Minister of Information last week had his "secretary," Sir Samuel Hood, throw reporters out of his office. A few moments later the bell of the Ministry's great hall rang three times, indicating an important announcement. The microphone boomed: "Sir John Reith cannot see journalists." Journalists chuckled at the choice of the word cannot...
Macmillan, Reith & Duncan. Observers have expected for some weeks that Neville Chamberlain would gradually make a series of Cabinet changes and last week he followed up his unpopular ousting of Go-getter Hore-Belisha by a popular ousting of Lord Macmillan from the post of Minister of Information of which he has made such a mess (TIME, Sept. 18). To take over the Ministry of Information the Prime Minister appointed Sir John Reith, "The Man Who Made The British Broad casting Corp." and whose deep voice the world heard introducing the abdication broadcast of Edward VIII. A strict moralist, nonsmoker...
...department of commerce) was handed on from Oliver Stanley last week to Sir Andrew Rae Duncan, chairman of the British Iron and Steel Federation, onetime chairman of the Central Electricity Board and never before prominent in politics. Seats will have to be found for him and for Sir John Reith in the House of Commons and by-elections in safe Conservative constituencies will soon be held for this purpose. This week, as Britain awaited further Cabinet changes, people were saying: "The generals intend...
...last week British Broadcasting Corp. staged a unique and peculiarly British program, a broadcast strictly for dogs. This was the sort of thing decorous Director-General Sir John Reith might have forbidden in his time, but strait-laced Sir John was replaced last October by heartier Frederick Wolff Ogilvie. "Calling All Dogs" was announced as an experiment to find out just what broadcasting means to dogs. So British radio owners were asked to have their dogs listen in, and to report their dogs' reactions to the broadcast...