ABSTRACT
When Radcliffe was moved up to be Controller of the Press and Censorship Division in December 1940, he was replaced as Chief Press Censor by Admiral Thomson, 47 whom Churchill (as First Lord) had summoned in early September 1939 from holiday in France when Poland was invaded, and sent across to the MoI as the Admiralty’s representative. Thomson remained as Chief Press Censor for the remainder of the War, and, with Radcliffe replacing Monckton as Director-General of the Ministry in 1941, a considerable measure of stability was at last brought to the Government/Media interface. Another regular feature was continuing correspondence with the Security Service about the degree of censorship thought by the latter to be required, and the potential for subversion from within parts of the Media. 48
