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333: 133:'s four-person Advisory Committee on the Department of Information, and in December he prepared a further report, calling for greater centralisation of the propaganda effort and a larger role for the Advisory Committee. Donald often questioned Lloyd George's decisions and, in 1918, the two fell out while Donald was a British official observer at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919. A consortium centred on Lloyd George bought the 33: 188:, Donald was shocked by the leeway given to the Polish delegation - "an embarrassing problem to the Allies of The Great War" - and by the ultimate dismemberment of Germany with its imposed new eastern borders. He travelled to eastern Europe several times in the 1920s culminating in two books largely sympathetic to the German complaints: 267: 504: 196:(1929) In addition he was sympathetic to Hungary, and after much research there interviewing all the major politicians, and "several years study", he produced a further book: 129:, and in 1917, Lloyd George commissioned him to produce a report on government propaganda efforts, which Donald prepared in just four weeks. He was then appointed to 408: 70: 378: 418: 358: 291: 279: 200:- Hungary's Appeal to Humanity, with an Introduction by Viscount Rothermere. Both described central Europe as a "powder magazine". 242: 80:, a new London evening newspaper. He specialised in investigations into local government in London, then briefly ran a journal, 177:
government to chair the Empire Wireless Committee, to urgently 'consider and advise upon the policy to be adopted as regards an
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in 1906. He subsequently became managing director of United Newspapers and President of the
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Papers Past, Evening Post (New Zealand), published 1924-02-25, accessed 2010-10-03
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in 1919, but sold it in 1921. The following year, he became editor of
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Donald long had a friendly relationship with the Prime Minister,
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Having been present as an observer at the deliberations for the
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Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire
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For the Confederate soldier and Texas politician, see
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Parliamentary Archives, Papers of Sir Robert Donald
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