Shoulder-Shrugging
Julian Critchley, 11 December 1997
Dear Bill: Bill Deedes Reports
by W.F. Deedes.
Macmillan, 396 pp., £20, October 1997,0 333 71386 9 Show More
by W.F. Deedes.
Macmillan, 396 pp., £20, October 1997,
“... Nabarro. After the ‘Night of the Long Knives’, when Macmillan was panicked by a typical Rab Butler indiscretion into sacking the dead wood in his Cabinet, Deedes was brought in to oversee the Government’s public relations. Spin-doctors were unheard of at that time, and Deedes’s task was to exploit his Fleet Street contacts to the Government’s ... ”