FOREIGN PROPAGANDA
ATTITUDE OF BRITAIN NO CHANGE IN POLICY (Received February 17, 6.5 p.m.) British Wireless RUGBY, Feb. 16 During a short debate in the House of Commons to-day on the propaganda activities of certain foreign Governments and the need for more effective action to make British news and culture better known abroad, and to counter misrepresentations, the Earl of Winterton, on behalf of the Government, said that in. some other countries national publicity was entirely controlled, financed and directed by the Governments. Not only was that not a British method, but it was not the intention of the Government to make any change in the traditional British attitude in that matter. Lord Winterton gave an emphatic denial to a suggestion, which had appeared abroad, that the appointmeut of the Vansittart Publicity Committee was inspired by a desire to attack other countries, or that it would occupy itself with propaganda in the sense in which certain other countries understood the term and practised it.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22966, 18 February 1938, Page 9
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