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THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 16, 1939.
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Premier Promises No Interference With Press
New Foreign Office "Publicity Department" Set Up
Journalists Left Out In The Cold
London, To-day. The British Government has decided not to set up a peacetime Ministry of Information, but to establish a foreign publicity department of the Foreign Office, under the general direction of Lord Perth, announced the Prime Minister, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, in the House of Com- mons yesterday.
DAYLIGHT CURFEW
IN TIBERIAS
Jerusalem, To-day. Daylight curfew will be con- tinued for ten days.
It was imposed on the Jewish quarter of Tiberias as sequel to an explosion there on Monday, when a landmine blew up a' lorry con- taining Government workers, killing one and injuring 12.- Reuter Bulletin.
Mr. Chamberlain said a great deal of valuable work had already been done in spreading knowledge of this country through the cultural and edu-300
"CALAMITY" TO GIVE BACK COLONIES
To return the former German colonies would be "a perfect cala- mity," said Viscount Stonehaven, speaking at the inaugural meeting of the Oxford branch of the Colonial League.
"Africa at present is under the League of Nations," he went on. "The various nations live together comfortably and peaceably, but once let Germany in and you will alter that peaceful states of affairs at once.
MACHINES TO "It is useless to think, as some TRAIN PILOTS
cational work of the British Council in dis- seminating accurate information and counter- acting foreign misrepresentation of British policy, and in the action of the B.B.C. in their foreign language broadcasts, and in the press. ing of air pilots without their leav- will do is to postpone a war.
people in this country think, that you will preserve peace by giving way to the German demands. You will never buy Hitler off, and you will never prevent war by hand- the apparatus devised for the train-ing over the colonies The most you
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In regard to peacetime publicity, which he had described, that would be' concerned with overseas pub- licity entirely, and there would be no interference with the press in this country by that department.
JOURNALISTS NOT WANTED
The Foreign Office maintained the necessary contacts
all these .channels of publicity.
There was reason to suppose that these efforts had been a good deal more effective than was generally realised, but in Government opinion their effectiveness could be siderably strengthened if their
Mr. Greenwood asked whether it direction was co-ordinated and con-
was the intention that the new .centrated in a special department. department should effectively be
The Foreign Office accordingly
supported by competent and experi- had decided to establish a depart-enced journalists who understood ment under the name, foreign pub-
sound publicity. licity department of the Foreign Office.
MR. BUTLER
Mr. Chamberlain replied that he did not believe it was necessary to associate journalists directly with This department included that the department of the Foreign Office, : section of the news department though there must be an "intimate which was previously concerned touch" between the department and with that work and would be pro- the journalistic profession.-Reuter. vided with additional staff.
CLUB BANS SNOBS
The Under-Secretary, Mr. Butler, would give special attention to the foreign publicity department, and Lord Perth, whose wide. ecquaint- ance with international affairs was well known, had accepted the invita- .Husband hunters, girls who are tion to undertake, gneral supervi-stand-offish and young women who sion under the Foreign Secretary, Lord Halifax.
IF WAR COMES
snub young men just for the fun of doing so, are not wanted as members of Dagenham (Essex) Tennis and Social Club.
"In the event of this country ever 'The club has announced that a becoming engaged in a major war, few vacancies exist for new women it would be the intention of the members, but a warning is added Government to establish at once a that, while new members will re- Ministry of Information, with aceive good coaching and every en- Cabinet Minister at its head and a couragement, they must possess .director-general, whose status would sound social spirit.
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be equivalent to that of the per- "No spoil-sports need apply", manent head of a public depart-club official told a reporter. "Some ment of the first rank.
"The Ministry of Information -would operate in wartime; in peace conditions, after the necessary plans have been completed, there will only „exist a
skeleton organisation with- .out which swift action would be impossible if an emergency arose."
NO INTERFERENCE WITH PRESS
tennis clubs are notorious for the cliques which are formed within the membership. It leads to bad feeling and accusations of snobbery."
"Women are, often the worst of- fenders. We're a happy club at Dagenham and we intend to remain
Seen by Traffic Sub-Inspector P. Replying to Mr. Arthur Green-Y. Tsui in Jordan Road yesterday wood (Labour) Mr. Chamberlain morning driving a private car, No. said that developments for peace-2742, without due care and caution, time did not constitute the setting Li Shiu-man, aged 22, chauffeur, up of a new Ministry. That would was this morning fined $10 by Mr. be a wartime measure only. IQ. A. A. Macfadyen at Kowloon.
A further 300 "Link" trainers-
ing the ground, have been ordered for the Royal Air Force.
"Hitler does not realise what the British Empire is, just as the Kai- The first "Link" trainer was de- ser failed to realise what it was. livered to the Air Ministry in If Germany forces the issue with November, 1936, and the following us to-day she will find us-five times year 50 more were ordered. The as formidable as we were in 1914, success attendant on their use has and if there is a war, there can be resulted in the large order now no doubt how it will end." placed.
The Duchess of Atholl said that Henceforth, every RA.F. aero-to hand back the colonies would drome will be equipped with these not mean a · more peaceful world, important adjuncts to flying train-but a world in which the position ing.
as it was in Europe to-day would These trainers, which incorporate be reproduced in another part of complicated mechanism and the the globe. latest types of navigational instru- ments, are expensive. Some models use of these machines will greatly cost as much as $1,700. But the reduce the time now necessary to operational expenses are trifling. train pilots, and will also obviate a It is thought that the extended large number of flying acçidents. --
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