§ 60. Mr. S. Silvermanasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs by what authority officers of his Department made a complaint to the Central Office of Information for including in its routine programme for overseas countries an extract from a leading article in The Times newspaper of 5th January last, entitled, "Evil Seed."
§ Mr. R. AllanMy right hon. and learned Friend is responsible for the policy governing the output of the Central Office of Information to our posts abroad. These posts are informed of the editorial content of the daily Press in two sections of the London Press Service. The first is a summary; the second contains longer quoted extracts.The Times article referred to was included in the summary. It was however considered that too much space—one-third of the total from all newspapers—was devoted to direct quotation in the second section. This point was made orally to the Central Office of Information, whose responsible officers concurred.