This favorable attitude of the American press toward the Entente powers was an enormous advantage to the latter.

We were made to feel that the Entente was fighting the cause of the small and weak nations against the ruthlessness of a great bully.

We were inevitably led to believe that the war had been started through the deliberate

determination of Germany to initiate her alleged long-cherished plan to dominate the planet,

while the Entente had proposed diplomatic settlement from the beginning and had only

taken up arms and self-defense with the utmost reluctance.

This theory of the German provocation of the war and the German lust for world dominion

was played up in the newspapers until the danger from Germany struck terror into the hearts of Americans.

Harry Elmer Barnes The Genesis of the World War.

Great Britain entered the World War with nothing that could even remotely be termed

an official propaganda department.

She finished the struggle with the best-developed and probably most effective organization devoted to propaganda of any of the belligerent nations.

They revealed once and for all that official propaganda, dexterously handled and adequately financed, is one of the most potent instruments of modern warfare.

James Dwayne Squires.

British propaganda at home and in the United States from 1914 to 1917.

The British campaign to induce the United States to come to their assistance

affected every phase of American life.

It was propaganda in its broadest meaning.

News, money, and political pressure each played its part, and the battle itself was fought

not only in London, New York, and Washington, D.C., but also in American classrooms and

pulpits, factories, and offices.

It was a campaign to create a pro-British attitude of mind among Americans, to get American

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