EFFORTS OF THE PRESS.
“AS IMPORTANT AS THOSE OF THE ARMY.”
“The efforts of the press are quite as important as the efforts of the A my.” This statement was mad© recently by Lord Beaverbrook, British Minister of Propaganda, rfo'ws the guest of the Foreign Press Association at a lunch. The first essential of effective propaganda was an adequate, supply of paper to the press, without which rumours would .be spread everywhere, greatly disturbing the social conditions in which the war twas waged. Unless all the Allied nations were convinced of the 'necessity for waging war, the conflict must come to an end. For that reason it was entirely necessary that the democracy shoulct be convinced The newspaper played a compelling part in diseminating to the many the knowledge of the few. • , , Lord Burnham said nobody grumbled at the Censor taking the responsibility for things" relating to the Army and Navy, but when the censorship was extended Jo politics it did nothing but mischief.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 4900, 20 June 1918, Page 6
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164EFFORTS OF THE PRESS. Gisborne Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 4900, 20 June 1918, Page 6
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