A Wartime Minister Of Information Is Compelled,

Nothing Sets A Person Up More Than Having Something Turn Out Just The Way It's Supposed To Be, Like Falling Into A Swiss Snowdrift And Seeing A Big Dog Come Up With A Little Cask Of Brandy Round Its Neck.

Believe Nothing Until It Has Been Officially Denied.

Never Underestimate The Effectiveness Of A Straight Cash Bribe.

The Hired Journalist, I Thought, Ought To Realize That He Is Partly In The Entertainment Business And Partly In The Advertising Business - Advertising Either Goods, Or A Cause, Or A Government. He Just Has To Make Up His Mind Whom He Wants To Entertain, And What He Wants To Advertise.

What Arouses The Indignation Of The Honest Satirist Is Not, Unless The Man Is A Prig, The Fact That People In Positions Of Power Or Influence Behave Idiotically, Or Even That They Behave Wickedly. It Is That They Conspire Successfully To Impose Upon The Public A Picture Of Themselves As So Very Sagacious, Honest And Well-intentioned.