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...hunt narrowed down when an anonymous telephone call to the British Broadcasting Corp. put the finger on a Miss Minnie L. Haskins. Every effort was promptly made to get in touch with Minnie, for by this time BBC officials were being harried by an avalanche of queries from baffled quotation hunters who included such savants as Harold Idris Bell, Keeper of Manuscripts at the British Museum, and the Very Reverend Walter Robert Matthews, Dean of St. Paul...
...Legion headed by 45-year-old General Sergej Ingr, named Commander in Chief. Meanwhile, one of the Committee's problems will be to dissuade Czechs under German rule from futile revolts. Onetime Minister to the Court of St. James's Jan Masaryk warned his countrymen over the BBC that the present was not a propitious time for anti-Nazi agitation...
...serious play seriously. He went to the opening of the revival, a sad, reedy figure in a great black cape, doddered up the stairs to his box holding on to both handrails, sat tense through the uproar, at the end bowed to the audience, thanked them. Asked in a BBC interview whether he wasn't angry at the way audiences treated Young England, he answered: "No. They're a little noisy . . . but they pay as much as 10 and 6 for seats, so they must like...
Facing directly the charges that he is himself a propagandist as well as student, Siepmann declared, "I have absolutely no political connections whatever; and I have severed all relation with BBC. In the next three years I expect to be devoted to study and thought, perhaps to publication...
...according to Producer Korda, though later the British Government bought it), the picture maintained a mounting tension as thrilling as its theme sound of droning airplane engines. But it also had a quiet humor. Sample: during the Kiel raid the navigator asked his pilot to "pick up Middleton" (a BBC lecturer who talks on gardening). Satisfied that Britons have forgotten none of the talent for first-rate propaganda they developed during World War I, the Ministry of Information announced that similar films on U-boats, convoys, a great military picture about the Maginot and Siegfried lines, were on its production...