Letter from B C Sendall [Private Secretary] (Ministry of Information, Malet Street, WC1 [London]) to John Martin [Prime Minister's Principal Private Secretary] giving details of the recent visit to Britain by Walter Lippman with conclusion, underlined in blue pencil, that Lippman spent less than three days in London at a time when neither the Prime Minister nor the Foreign Secretary were available. [Signed typescript].

Minute from WSC to Minister of Information [Geoffrey Lloyd] marked "indexed" suggesting that he study some of the commentaries made on the British Movietone by Leslie Mitchell, as WSC has been "disagreeably impressed by his boastful and trampling manner", and asking whether this commentator can be induced to be more moderate in tone.

Memorandum from Geoffrey Lloyd [Minister of Information] to WSC replying to his personal minute [complaining about the tone adopted in commentaries by Leslie Mitchell], stating that he will take this up with the heads of British Movietone News who "are co-operating well at the present time", and expressing hope that they would take notice of a suggestion that their commentaries be toned down. [Initialled typescript] Initialled and dated by WSC in red ink on 21 Jun.