Autograph letter signed : Tidmarsh, to Duncan Grant, 1918 May 19.

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Autograph letter signed : Tidmarsh, to Duncan Grant, 1918 May 19.

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Strachey expresses his unease with the news that Grant may decide to accept a government position as an "official painter" because Grant would be jeopardizing his status as a concientious objector. Lord Beaverbrook, who had recently been appointed Britain's first Minister of Information, was sympathetic to Grant, which is why he offered him the position, but Strachey worries that if Beaverbrook were to leave office, Grant might lose his C.O. status on the grounds that he had shown himself willing to aid the war effort as a creator of propaganda art. In any case, Strachey finds Beaverbrook untrustworthy, and the practical considerations aside, he implies that Grant would be compromising his consistent refusal to aid the war effort.

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