ABSTRACT
With the Second World War won by Britain and relegated to the past, the hierarchy of the newly titled Fellowship o f Postgraduate Medicine (FPM) had a great deal of re building to do. At the first Executive meeting after VJ Day (15 August 1945), held on 21 September, a great deal of attention was given to the PMJ (see Chapter 18), and reports from the Editor and Business Manager were either pre-circulated or tabled at that meeting. In the light of a report made by the then Editor, Dr F Croxon Deller, MD, MRCP, the Committee re-affirmed its opinion that 'in no circumstances was the Journal to be divorced from the Fellowship'. There was obviously a problem with the punctuality of the publication date, due apparently to problems with the printer. This matter was repeatedly mentioned at future Executive meetings and N Gordon Unwin (of Unwin Brothers Ltd, Little Russell St, WC1) wrote to say that 'As you know, the printing trade as a whole is still, and is likely to, suffer from lack of staff which makes working to a schedule very difficult'. Both the Editor and Mr RH Blythe (the Business Manager) obviously felt that increased circulation of the PMJ would be both highly desirable and a boost to the finances. Regarding content, the Committee suggested that an occasional article by a chemotherapist should be published, and although they were obviously in favour of including medical history, this must be 'in addition to and not instead of other articles of more general postgraduate interest'.1
