The Westminster Gazette on Tuesday published a striking article which
professed to give certain facts about the Ministry of Informa- tion under Lord Beaverbrook. The chief officials of this Ministry, which is a Ministry just as much as -the Admiralty -and the War Office are Ministries, are said to be mostly directors of important commercial companies. Shipping, railways, rubber, -and tobacco are all represented. It should be said that all these officials -are unpaid. The writer of the article asks how the activities of the Ministry are related to those of the Foreign Office. Clashing seems likely. Again, " what is the idea behind Lord. Beaverbrook's machinery ? What are his commercial.missionaries saying about us to the outer world ? " A debate on the subject is promised in Parliament, so we need not do more now than state the alleged facts round which the discussion may be expected to turn.
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