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Modernism, Media and Propaganda: British Narrative from 1900 to 1945
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Greasing the Channels MARK WOLLAEGER, Modernism, Media and Propaganda: British Narrative from 1900 to 1945 (Princeton: Princeton UP, 2006), pp. 364, cloth, $35.00.
In August 1918, as First secretary to the Treasury in Lloyd George's Coalition, Stanley Baldwin explained to the House of Commons some of the exceptional measures to which a modem government must resort when confronted by a crisis as profound as that of the Great War. "Propaganda is not a word that has a pleasant sound to English ears," declared the future Conservative Prime Minister. Even as he deplored state management of information, however, Baldwin justified it as a necessary expedient, "like anti-submarine work." But public ...
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