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Increasingly newsmen have lately been stirred by uneasy memories of World War I's Committee on Public Information, and its mercurial creator of genius, George Creel, the crusading Denver newspaperman. Let there be no propaganda, said Creel to his bosom friend, Woodrow Wilson; let there be "unparalleled openness," "expression, not repression"-in short, "voluntary censorship." With that idealistic base Creel proceeded to build such a propaganda wonder, with vast, adroitly concealed powers over the press...
Lacking any clear definition of treasonable and seditious news, and operating through the vague but wide terms of the Espionage Act of 1917 (which has never been repealed), the Creel Committee kept the U. S. press vacillating uneasily between timidity and hysteria...
Oftenest reputed to be in line for World War II's George Creel, if one is ever appointed, is a soft-spoken ex-newspaperman named Lowell Mellett, elder brother of Don Mellett, "the newspapermen's martyr," who was killed in 1926 by gangsters on whom he waged war as editor of the Canton (Ohio) News. Top-flight Scripps-Howard editor and executive for 16 years, Mellett parted company with Roy Howard in 1937 over editorial policy in the Supreme Court fight. Called by President Roosevelt to head the National Emergency Council, super-press bureau of the New Deal...
...George Creel, California publicist and organizer of public opinion for the Wilson Administration during World...
...miscaptioned actress, a sharp rebuke. Herewith the real Blanche Bates (who never wore tights) as she appeared in 1901 in Under Two Flags. A private company produced The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin, though the CPI (which effectively suppressed other movies) let it pass without comment. TIME stated that Creel "deplored the national hysteria which his Committee had so successfully fostered." In general, as Authors Mock & Larson amply showed, George Creel's CPI occupied the position of bellwether of the propaganda herd...