18 FEBRUARY 1938, Page 3

On Wednesday Mr. Lees-Jones introduced the subject Of British Propaganda

abroad, on which the whole House is unanimous. No one wanted to make the sensational speeches that might have been made exposing the methods of other countries, but Commander Fletcher, who has ,made this his subject, instanced a foreign country which follows the B.B.C. news summary with some anti-British comments on a scarcely different wavelength in an Oxford accent. All agreed that Britain must not retaliate in kind, but that considerable sums must now be spent to give straight news.

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