"This news propaganda," he declared, "can only be held at bay successfully by a British news service of the highest quality. One such has long existed—the only British agency which penetrates to the majority of foreign countries and elsewhere. But, conducted on strictly commercial lines, it can no longer compete in volume with the heavily subsidized foreign services, totalitarian or otherwise, which it encounters chiefly on the Continent of Europe and in the Far East.
"Unless some means can be devised for utilising the worldwide organization of this British service for the dissemination of a volume of news sufficiently large to counterbalance the influence of its subsidized rivals and for making available to British newspapers not only British news and the British viewpoint, but the British version of international events in supplement of, and in correction of the version given out by others—unless this could be done, our country's cause, the cause of the Empire, the British Commonwealth óf Na-tons, will suffer, so far as we are concerned, in the eyes of the rest of the worl
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