FOREIGN PROPAGANDA
THE BRITISH METHOD NO CHANGE IX POLICY '{Offlclal 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 hotter known abroad, and to counter misrepresentations, the Kail of YYinterton, on behalf of the Government, said that in some other coun- ! Iries. national publicity was entirely eontrolled. financed and directed by I (he Governments. Xot only was that | not a British method, hut il was not ! ihe intention of the Government to make any change in Hie traditional I British attitude in that matter. Karl Wintertnn gave an emphatic i denial to a suggestion, which had appeared abroad, that the appoint! . of the Vansittart Publicity Committee | was inspired by a desire to attack j other countries, or that it would oc- | eupy itself with propaganda in the i sense in which certain other countries [understood the term and practised it.
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Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20427, 18 February 1938, Page 7
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