The Foreign Office, accordingly, had decided to establish a department under the name of the Foreign Publicity Department of the Foreign Office.
This department will include that section of the news department ich was previously concerned with that work, and would be provided with additional staff. Mr. R. A. Butler, the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, would give special attention to the Foreign Publicity Department and Lord Perth, whose wide acquaintance of international affairs was well-known, had accepted an invitation to take charge of the Department "In the event of this country ever becoming engaged in a major war, Mr. Chamberlain stated, "it would be the intention of the Government to establish, at once, a Ministry of Information, with a Cabinet Minister as its head and a director-general, whose status would be equivalent to that of a permanent head of a public department of the first rank.
he Ministry of Information," he added, "will operate in war-time; in peace conditions, after the necessary plans have been completed, there will only exist a skeleton organisation, without which, swift action would be impossible, if an emergency arose."
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