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J. A. Spender, worthy and rational editor of the Westminster Gazette, ‘the sea-green incorruptible’, found himself disputing government policy with the owner of a mass circulation paper. The man undertook to prove his paper’s line correct. He sent for the circulation figures and pointed triumphantly to the rise that began when his line was started. Spender was numbed. ‘I found it impossible to persuade him that there was any gap in his reasoning’.1
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J. A. Spender, The Public Life, 2 vols (London, Cassell, 1925) vol. II, p. 108.
See N. Kaldor and R. Silverman, A Statistical Analysis of Advertising Expenditure and of the Revenue of the Press (London, C.U.P., 1948) p. 84.
A. P. Wadsworth, Newspaper Circulations 1800–1954 (Manchester Statistical Society, 1955) p. 27.
Neal Blewett, The Peers, the Parties and the People (London, Macmillan, 1972) p. 301.
Viscount Camrose, British Newspapers and their Controllers (London, Cassell, 1947) p. 7.
Wilfrid Hindle, The Morning Post, 1772–1937 (London, Geo. Routledge, 1937) p. 239–40. Bates became Lord Hurcomb. He died in 1946 when about to embark in the Queen Elisabeth for her maiden voyage as a passenger liner.
R. J. Minney, Viscount Southwood (London, Odhams, 1954) pp. 223–6, 237; Hamilton Fyfe, Sixty Years of Fleet Street (London, W. H. Allen, 1949) pp. 192–5.
A. J. P. Taylor (ed.), Lloyd George: a Diary by Frances Stevenson (London, Hutchinson, 1971) p. 260.
Lord Burnham, Peterborough Court (London, Cassell, 1955) p. 116–8.
Philip Gibbs, The Pageant of the Years (London, Heinemann, 1946) pp. 56–62.
Nigel Nicolson (ed.), Harold Nicolson: Diaries and Letters 1930–39 (London, Collins Fontana, 1969) pp. 75–97.
David Lloyd George, The Truth about the Peace Treaties 2 vols (London, Gollancz, 1938) vol. t, p. 266.
Michael Astor, Tribal Feeling (London, John Murray, 1963) p. 146.
Quoted in Harold Herd, The March of journalism (London, Allen and Unwin, 1952) p. 249.
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Seymour-Ure, C. (1975). The Press and the Party System between the Wars. In: Peele, G., Cook, C. (eds) The Politics of Reappraisal 1918–1939. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-02242-7_11
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