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Shadow. But the wheels of propaganda were beginning to buzz in their various ways last week as two novelists and a Scottish lawyer fought to reach the eyes and ears of the world with the best cases they could make for the conduct of their warring countries. One novelist was Paul Joseph Goebbels, author (at 24) of Michael, probably as bad a book as has ever been published, and operator (at 41) of the most powerful, most smoothly organized publicity machine the world has ever seen...
...because of its past pluperfect grade performance and present eccentricity, most interest centred last week on the propaganda plant of the Scottish lawyer. When Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain made Baron Macmillan of Aberfeldy Britain's Minister of Information, he gave the 66-year-old peer one of the toughest, one of the most delicate, of Britain's wartime jobs. It was one of the undeveloped "shadow ministries." Lord Macmillan had to organize a staff to sift and relay war news after war news had already begun to come in. He had to establish censorship after censorable news...
...amiable war horse of British political life, the sort of indulgent after-dinner speaker who keeps a card index of good jokes, stuffs his pockets with them when he goes to a banquet, Lord Macmillan was a youthful prodigy at the University of Edinburgh, was admitted to the Scottish bar at 24 and became editor of a legal review at 27. Then his career hit an eleven-year gap of unpublicized performance from which it emerged in 1918, to reveal the young lawyer as Assistant Director of Intelligence in Britain's Wartime Ministry of Information. After the War, Scot...
Last week there was little likelihood of Sir Kenneth Clark making a visit to Milan to authenticate a new da Vinci. Sir Kenneth moved his handsome Scottish wife and three children to the country, closed their beautiful house at 30 Portland Place, took rooms in Gray's Inn. As Surveyor of the King's Pictures, Sir Kenneth has the duty of guarding the royal collections at Buckingham Palace, Windsor and Hampton Court. It was a busy week...
...Their Majesties' friend and Great Britain's U. S. banker, John P. Morgan, called off the grouse shooting at his Scottish moor, offered his Gannochy Lodge to the nation for a hospital...