At any rate, let food-and-talk be as at the British
Survey luncheon on Wednesday of this week. The chairman, Mr. G M. Young, contented himself with proposing the King, two out of the three speakers, Mr. Brendan Bracken and the Ameri- can Ambassador, were admirably concise, and if the third had emulated them we should have been away inside an hour and a half. It was interesting to hear the Minister of Information, whose chief business is propaganda of a kind, praising the British Survey—very justly—for purveying nothing but facts (as Mr. Clough Williams-Ellis would say, FACTS) and eschew- ing propaganda rigorously. It is satisfactory to find the British Survey's periodical " surveys " of foreign countries or problems in international affairs growing steadily in circulation, and still more to find that so much of the demand comes from the Army, including particularly the Canadian divisions.
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