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...from the Ministry of Information went suave Alfred Duff Cooper, Minister since Winston Churchill became Prime Minister last year, whose suavity has suffered somewhat in defending the organization of the M.O.I. from caustic Parliamentary critics who like it as little as he does. Still in the Cabinet, Duff Cooper was given the dutiless post of Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, assigned to go to the Far East to report on the coordination between military, administrative and political authorities there-a job which should keep him busy for some time...
Knowing that false optimism is as dangerous to morale as pessimism, Government and press promptly loosed a heavy bombardment against such Pollyannaism. Said Minister of Information Alfred Duff Cooper: "I was . . . somewhat horrified. . . ." Fumed the press: "Featherbrained! . . . Fatuous! . . . People whose peace aim is a binge . . . invest cash in a hypothetical beanfeast rather than lend it to the Government...
...show's permanent panel, and plenty of careful research goes into the program. Among the experts: Sir William Beveridge, Master of Oxford's University College; Historian Charles Kingsley Webster; Laborite Francis Williams; Birmingham University Economist Philip Sargant Florence. Also on tap are Government bigwigs such as Alfred Duff Cooper, who supplied for the first Answering You show an explanation for Britain's failure to bomb the Rumanian oil fields...
...Ministry mend its muddling ways, London newsmen badger it constantly, refer to the Press v. Ministry feud as the Battle of Bloomsbury. (The Ministry operates out of Bloomsbury from an elephantine white building borrowed from London University.) Typical of the quarrel are snide cartoons of Minister of Information Alfred Duff Cooper...
Lady Diana Duff Cooper, daughter of eight Dukes, was patriotically collecting swill for her pigs from door to door in Bognor Regis, Sussex, when she was picked up on three traffic charges. ∽∽ Third wife Sylvia, ex-Lady Ashley got her $3,000 monthly allowance from Douglas Fairbanks' estate continued for six months. Other heirs had claimed this was more than the income on her half-share, for the estate may be much less than the $2,000,000 Doug thought he was leaving, had asked that her allowance be reduced to $1,000 monthly. ∽∽ Princess...