were deployed to other departments during the First World War. While nominally continuing to hold his post, Gowers was attached to the Foreign Office working under Charles Masterman MP at Wellington House, Britain's top-secret wartime propaganda unit.

Grappling with the coal industry

In 1917 Gowers was appointed secretary of the Conciliation and Arbitration Board for government employees. In 1919 he began

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