NAVAL PROPAGANDA.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 245, 16 October 1929, Page 6

NAVAL PROPAGANDA.

While- the American authorities are investigating the record of Mr. William B. Shearer as a "big navy" propagandist, Viscount Bridgeman, who was First Lord of the Admiralty in the Baldwin Government, has written a letter to the "Times" describing Shearer's activities at the Geneva Conference of 1927. Lord Bridgeman charges Shearer with "distributing violent attacks on Britain's policy and good faith," and with "making monstrous misstatements about her actual proposals." These accusations, if they can be substantiated, may help to explain the curiously perverted and distorted views of British policy that are so frequently expressed in American newspapers. It is evident that American public opinion has been systematically misled in such matters, and if Mi. Mac Donald's mission has the effect of sweeping away such /hallucinations and delusions from the American mind, our Prime Minister "will deserve the gratitude of the United States and Britain alike. If the part once played by diplomats in stirring up war is now to be taken by secret agents for armament firms, the world •will be worse off for the change.