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PAMPHLETS IN PREPARATION OR CONTEMPLATED
This list includes only pamphlets (6,000 words or more), in general to be sold commercially. Leaflets, for free distribution, are not included.
GENERAL DIVISION
A. A series in gravure, to be published at 3d, for popular distribution, illustrating the theme “The Evil Things”. These have been commissioned. Titles are provisional.
1.
If Hitler Lands at Hastings
H.V. Morton
2.
No Hell Like Home (Family Life under the Nazis)
E.M. Delafield
3.
Mr. Smith and Mr. Schmidt (Labour under the Nazis)
Herbert Morrison
4.
The Crushing of a Nation (Poland under the Nazis)
Negley Farson
5.
Czechoslovakia under the Nazis
Vernon Bartlett
6.
No Quarter (The Totalitarian Idea of War)
Beverley Nichols
7.
Spot the Knave: Dr.Goebbel's Three Card Trick
Howard Spring
8.
The Eagle over Africa (German methods of colonial rule)
Brett Young
B. The beginning of a second series of more general pamphlets for a public similar to that for the Oxford Pamphlets. To be published at 3d. Line illustrations only.
1.
The Rights of Man
Harold Laski
2.
With None to Make them Afraid (Defence of British Institutions)
A.P. Herbert
3.
Our Social Revolution
J.R. Clynes
4.
The Crooked Cross
The Dean of Chichester.
5.
The Pope Speaks to Germany
Ronald Knox
6.
The Lights Go Out (Decline of Culture under the Nazis)
Rebecca West
7.
Read What You Will
E.M. Forster
8.
The Search for Truth
Julian Huxley
C. A series in gravure to follow series A with the same publisher, illustrating The Battle for Freedom. (The titles are provisional).
1.
The Just Judges (Freedom of Justice)
Norman Birkett
2.
The Man Who Lost His Ears (Freedom of the Press)
Hannan Swaffer
3.
The Longest War in History (Freedom of Parliament and the Vote)
Harold Nicolson
4.
The Workers’ Charter (Freedom of Labour)
Sir Walter Citrine
5.
When Women Fought
Clemence Dane
6.
The Free Peoples (Statutes of Westminster)
Poet Laureate
FOREIGN DIVISION
1.
Social Services in England
A.D.K. Owen
British Council are negotiating with Penguin Books at the moment with regard to publication abroad (by Penguin) in translation. British Council are contemplating writing it up in another form for translation and distribution by Press Attaches.
2.
Czechoslovakia Under the Germans
The Times Correspondent in Belgrade
Has been distributed in duplicated form. Serbian edition has been produced and printed here, but has not yet gone out.
3.
Anglo-Spanish Relations
Sir Charles Petrie
Original manuscript has been sent to Madrid, but has not yet been returned.
4.
England's Literary Record of Spain
Robert Sencourt
Has been printed and is going out immediately.
5.
The Catholics of Great Britain - Past and Present
Douglas Woodruff
Not yet finally approved by Spanish Section here.
6.
Some Facts about British Empire
(compilation)
7.
Poland's Friends and Her Neighbours
(compilation)
(Is being produced in about 10 languages, including English. Arabic and German editions already in hand).
8.
Some Gems of German Propaganda
(compilation)
(Being produced by General Division).
EMPIRE DIVISION
1. Series of 12 pamphlets (16,000 words each) on Empire subjects, to be published at 6d by Longmans in British Isles and Empire (M/I to arrange translations). Titles are not yet available.
RELIGIONS DIVISION
A. Series of Pamphlets (by the Protestant Section) to be published by Hodder & Stoughton at 3d. and distributed by the Ministry to the Clergy.
Purpose
: to help clergy and ministers In presenting the spiritual issues of the war, and facing war time difficulties of thought and life. The pacifist issue should be before the writers’ minds, even when not specifically mentioned.
1. The Voice of the Churches, (already published).
The following are already arranged for:-
Subjects, not titles
:
2.
To What Purpose is this Waste? Is the cost, material and spiritual, justified?
By The Very Rev. James Black, Ex-Moderator of the Church of Scotland
3.
Religious Freedom
By Dr. Sidney M. Berry, Secretary of the Congregational Union
4.
The Conditional Justification of War
By the Archbishop of York
5.
Is God Asleep? Why does He not stop the war, etc. Is there a divine purpose in history?
Principal W.F. Lofthouse, Ex-President of the Methodist Conference
6.
The Power to Endure. A Call to sacrifice.
The Rev. J.D. Jones, D.D., Ex-Moderator of the Free Church Federal Council.
7.
Thy Neighbour as Thyself. Poland; Czechoslovakia; Jews.
By Dr. J.H. Rushbrooke, President of the Baptist World Alliance
8.
A Christian Peace
By the Bishop of Durham
The following other subjects are under discussion:-
Germany's War on Religion.
The Personal Problems of War Time.
French Protestantism.
War on Two Fronts: Need for social justice.
Our British Heritage: due to religion; threatened; foundations of civilisation.
B. Series of Pamphlets (by the Catholic Section) to be published by Longmans at 6d.
