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...losing the war by propaganda": "We need no Goebbels. . . . Can the methods of a Goebbels fashion the mind of a new democracy? One consideration that suggests a ministry of propaganda to its proponents is the fact that we had a Committee on Public Information in the last war. . . . The Creel Committee, as it was known, has been studied thoroughly. But from the learned battle emerges only one conclusion: this country would have won the war, anyhow...
...great formulae of the Creel Committee, like 'making the world safe for Democracy,' became a mockery soon after the armistice. The man at the breakfast table felt that he had been duped. ... It was then that the little man began to shout, 'Back to normalcy.' The violence of the reaction was stunning; it lost us the peace...
...Flags (1901), as the breezily beautiful Girl of The Girl of the Golden West (1905), her popularity hit tops. She retired in 1926, returned to the stage briefly in 1933 in The Lake, with Katharine Hepburn. She was married twice, the second time to World War I Propagandist George Creel...
...will not have authority to originate news. (The Creel Committee of World War I combined censorship and propaganda with total powers in both departments. ) Government press bureaus, like those of Army and Navy, will continue to issue their own releases...
...Like the Creel Committee, the new Price censorship has no authority directly to mete out punishments or forbid the publication of news. His vast powers are derived chiefly from the Espionage Act of 1917, which is still on the books...