Sir, – May I offer a slight amplification for your note written to accompany Rudyard Kipling’s poem, My Boy Jack, which you included as your ‘Quote of the Quarter’ in the NR Vol 106/4. The poem was first published in Great Britain as part of a propaganda article, entitled ‘Destroyers at Jutland’, which appeared in the Daily Telegraph in four parts between October 19 and October 31, 1916. This series of articles had been specifically commissioned by the Chief Censor at the Admiralty, Captain Sir Douglas Brownrigg, who was also what passed for head of PR in those days. It was later collected, as…
