The banning of U.S. correspondents from Iceland last week could not be laid at the door of Britain's Ministry of Information, but London newsmen laid it there anyhow, largely on the grounds that any press mix-up would find the Ministry up to its hips in it.
Determined to make the Ministry mend its muddling ways, London newsmen badger it constantly, refer to the Press v. Ministry feud as the Battle of Bloomsbury. (The Ministry operates out of Bloomsbury from an elephantine white building borrowed from London University.) Typical of the quarrel are snide cartoons...
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