With the object of supplying Information Committees and Home Front Leagues with material which would enable them to answer questions of national importance put to them by an anxious public, the Regional office issued a periodical Bulletin beginning in the summer months of 1940.
Committees and Home Front Leagues were asked to let the Regional office know if they wanted specific matters dealt with, so that these could be incorporated in subsequent numbers of the Bulletin, For example, in one district there was a good deal of loose talk in the early days of the war about Britain not being worse off if Hitler won than it was then, and it became obvious to the Committee or League in that particular area that a true picture of what would happen if Britain really lost the war was vitally necessary as a corrective to such an attitude.
The Bulletin was also intended to form the basis of speakers’ notes, when talks were arranged by the Committees and Home Front Leagues.
Among the subjects discussed in the Bulletins were - Is the Invasion Coming? Why Hitler Delays; Our Essential Strength; Ships and Supplies; Our Raiders over Germany; The Gestapo in Europe; Recovered Confidence; Evacuees; The Milk Shortage; The British Empire in Action: etc., etc.,
The first Bulletin was duplicated in the Regional office, but subsequent numbers were printed in Reading and forwarded very week at first and then, owing to the paper shortage, every fortnight to the Committees and Home Front Leagues, the editors of Regional newspapers, Local Authorities, and representatives of important organisations, many of whom wrote to say how interesting and informative they found them.
One of the main reasons for the publication of the Regional Bulletin was the failure of London to supply sufficient information of the kind required.
