Churchill (Sir Winston Leonard Spencer) Letter signed to Lord Northcliffe, 1911, in reply to a
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Churchill (Sir Winston Leonard Spencer, Prime Minister, 1874-1965) Letter signed to Lord Northcliffe, 1p. with conjugate blank, 1st December 1911, in reply to a letter from Northcliffe on "The Question of the suppression of news of naval movements in the newspapers", "I certainly agree with what you say. See the article in today's Daily Telegraph, which gives away much important information. I wish you would read the enclosed remarkable speech by Compton Rickett, & let me have it back. It has passed quite unnoticed by the Press", folds; and 2 typescript copies of letters from Northcliffe, the first as quoted above and the second in reply to Churchill's letter, "I have written to Sir Joseph Compton-Rickett, asking if he will write me something on the same lines as his excellent speech... . When I wrote to you yesterday I was not referring to any particular newspapers, but to the general system of publication of naval news, which proceeds as a rule from indiscreet people at Plymouth...", v.s., 1911 (3).
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