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More reservedly enthusiastic were the sun-&-fun-loving income-tax-avoiding members of Nassau's Anglo-American cafe society. As spokesman of the colony's inner circle, Jane, Lady Williams-Taylor, grandmother of onetime Glamor Girl No. 1, Brenda Diana Duff Frazier, decided the Duchess "will be received," primly explained that "she is the wife of the king's representative...
...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...
...Hugh Elles, Britain's civil defense chief, exhorted his countrymen: "As sure as God made little apples, we are going to get a lot more bombing. . . . It's the noise that frightens. . . . Don't be frightened. Be angry. It's a good cure." And Alfred Duff Cooper, the propaganda chief, quoted on the radio 42 lines of Poet Thomas Babington Macaulay's Armada, to remind the British how, with bonfires instead of blackout, they reacted to invasion once before...
Rumor-Mongers Silenced. While Scotland Yard worked to remove a tangible menace from the British Isles. Minister of Information Alfred Duff Cooper inveighed against the more insidious danger of "lethargy, defeatism and rumor." Declaring that the impending dangers are being faced "in confidence, indeed in pride," he opened a campaign against rumormongering. It had been verified that "They say . . ." stories had caused the evacuation of several French villages and had thrown thousands of peasants into panic, and even as Duff Cooper spoke, a creepy story circulated in London about a nun in a railway carriage who stooped to pick...
...Minister of Information: bloody-shirt-waving Alfred Duff Cooper...