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WW1 - How successful was propeganda in the encouraging enlistment and ensuring public sport?
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Edward Phillips 17 May 2003 HOW SUCCESSFUL WAS PROPAGANDA IN ENCOURAGING ENLISTMENT AND ENSURING PUBLIC SUPPORT? 'Propaganda' is one-sided communication designed to influence people's thinking and actions. It is the word used to describe the ways in which the government tries to persuade people to follow their cause and win people's acceptance of their views, by emphasising only the good points of the government and the bad points of the opposition. It comes from the Latin name of a group of Roman Catholic cardinals, the 'Congregatio de Propaganda Fide' (Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith). Pope Gregory XV established the committee, which was called 'propaganda' for short, in 1622 to supervise missionaries, and gradually the word came to mean any effort to spread a belief. When World War I broke out in August 1914, Lord Horatio Kitchener, who had been a famous British soldier, became a member of the government and was promoted...
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