handicapped 3. The Council's work is therefore severely by the present shortage of publications of all kinds. be met. Orders for important periodicals often cannot Many new books of importaince go out of print immediately they are published, and there is a dangerous increase day in the number of older books which become by day in unobtainable, and which already include half the volumes in Everyman's Library, G.M. Trevelyan's "History of England", for instance, and large numbers of standard works in medicine, science, engineering and other subjects.
- Collection ID
- CAB71
- Document Reference
- CAB 71/28/17
- Document Types
- Memorandum
- File Reference
- CAB 71/28
- Former Department Reference
- LP(B)(42) 7
- Identifier
- 10.1080/wtss.cab71.000028.017
- Keywords
- Books British Empire Culture Doctors Enemy Propaganda Engineering English Language Exports Healthcare Libraries Overseas Trade Paper Periodicals Propaganda Publishing Quotas Science Students Teachers
- Language
- English
- Organizations Discussed
- British Council Foreign Office Lord President's Committee Sub-Committee on the Supply of Books
- Pages
- 2
- Published in
- United Kingdom
- Themes
- Information Services Propaganda Rationing Supply Retail Consumer Goods Entertainment Culture Publicity Campaigns Initiatives
