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...Silent Column was the name which Minister of Information Alfred Duff Cooper gave to a propaganda campaign urging secrecy in all military matters. Nothing new and decidedly sensible in a war in which traitors serve as military vanguards the movement was tolerated as long as it remained within reasonable bounds. But recently Duff Cooper intensified his drive until it became preposterously exaggerated. Three cinema shorts, a deluge of new colored posters, quarter-page advertisements in 108 newspapers and 72 magazines kept dinning: "Never pass on knowledge about the place or extent of air-raid damage; don't trust enemy...
...soldiers: "You are bloody fools to wear that uniform." Others were punished for joking about how the swastika would look over the Houses of Parliament, speculating about flying 40-ton Nazi tanks, grousing that parashots were "damned rot." Cases like these crystallized resentment against Minister of Information Duff Cooper, already unpopular, because he sent his son to safe haven in the U. S. while poor children were kept home. Said the Daily Mail: "If the Minister of Information is to kill rumor he must put something in its place...
...under Administration pressure (TIME, July 1). The conferees had asked the Treasury for its idea of a good excess-profits bill by Oct. 1, and few Congressmen expected to have to face the problem until then. Suddenly, the same day that their tax leaders (Senator Harrison, Representatives Doughton and Cooper) were invited to the Treasury to talk excess profits, the President uttered his 85 words. Congressmen wondered what had made him change his mind...
Like a durable old dowager, creaky but impressive, the Second Mrs. Tanqueray has swept in & out of theatres ever since 1893. First played by the late great Mrs. Patrick Campbell, the deplorably accessible heroine of this Pinero drama has been variously enacted by Eleanora Duse, Olga Nethersole, Gladys Cooper, Ethel Barrymore. Last week, in Maplewood, N. J., looking buxom as a milkmaid and in fine vocal trim, Tallulah Bankhead demonstrated that there's life in Pinero's old girl...
...Britain had no encouragement to "fight on," would the British Fleet be reassuringly moved to New World bases? From London, Alfred Duff Cooper's Ministry of Information issued a reply that was like a polite grinding of teeth...