Wednesday, December 26, 2018
Publishers, Not Policemen
Adam Sisman, An Honourable Englishman: The Life of Hugh Trevor-Roper (New York: Random House, ©2010), p. 84:
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[Arthur] Bryant's notoriously pro-Nazi book, Unfinished Victory, was published by Macmillan* in the spring of 1940. This was enough to raise a clamor for his arrest under Rule 18B of the Emergency Powers Act (1939), which allowed for the internment of those suspected of being Nazi sympathizers.
*Harold Macmillan was said to have defended his decision to publish Bryant on the grounds that "We are publishers, not policemen."
