The Times and the Appeasement of Hitler by COLIN SEYMOUR-URE
'A propaganda sheet ' was how A. J. P. Taylor derided The Times of the late 1930s. Mr Seymour-Ure , lecturer in Politics at the University of Kent at Canterbury, now in the course of writing a book of case studies showing the influence exerted by mass media over politics, pauses to examine all the available evidence (Including Donald Mc-Lachlan's biography of Barrington-Ward, In the Chair), and considers whether such a widely held attitude was justified, f