Word: morrisonism
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...tempestuous House, Cockney Morrison announced that he would "take any action in my power against any newspaper which conducts itself in such a way as to promote opposition to the successful conduct of the war. . . . If that newspaper [the Mirror] goes on with the pernicious line it has conducted, I tell the House it will be suppressed and the Government, having done that, will submit itself to the judgment of the House. . . . If the House has a division on such an issue and I go down, I will go down...
...suppress the Mirror, if it did not mind its tongue, Secretary Morrison threatened to use Section 2D of the Defense Regulations (which allows the Government to suppress a paper without warning or trial), a law that was passed by a slim majority in the invasion-threatened summer of 1940-passed with the express statement by the Government that it would not be used except in case of dire peril. Liberal M.P. Wilfrid Roberts drew cheers when he recalled these facts...
...Herbert Morrison had some supporters, among them Humorist A. P. Herbert, who said of the Mirror's attacks on brass hats: "By God, that particular passage about the Army is a damned disgusting blackguardly thing...
...Laborite Bevan, who declared that he never had liked the Mirror, really put Herbert Morrison on the spot. He casually pulled a bundle of clippings from his pocket and began reading from articles that Morrison himself had written for the Mirror before he became a member of the Government. One said that "the people want less muddled advice from the top"; another, that War Minister Hore-Belisha had been ousted by the brass hats because he wanted to democratize the army...
...Morrison, ordinarily a jolly, cocky man, blanched visibly. But he did not back down. It seemed clear that he was acting on instructions from the highest authority...