“He [Brendan Bracken] had been upset by my observation that a wartime Minister of Information was compelled, in the national interest, to such continuous acts of duplicity that even his natural hair must grow to resemble a wig.”

— Claud Cockburn

Crossing the Line (New York: Monthly Review Press, [1958] 1960) p. 88

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