Word: spensley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Were the atrocity stories supposed to help the sale of war bonds? All over the U.S., plain citizens thought so (bond sales zoomed, even doubled for several days after publication). Said Albuquerque's Dr. V. H. Spensley, a dentist whose son died in a Jap prison camp: "I can't understand why such information should be brought out now . . . except to sell bonds. For that purpose it's absolutely rotten. If the morality of America has sunk so low it required this kind of propaganda to sell bonds, we wonder what the boys are fighting...
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