期刊名称：Cercles : Revue Pluridisciplinaire du Monde Anglophone
电子版ISSN：1292-8968
出版年度：2000
期号：1
页码：21-31
出版社：Université de Rouen
摘要：Formal British propaganda activity began within weeks of the declaration ofwar. By August 1914, Lloyd George had personally asked Charles Masterman,his Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, to look into ways of countering thepropaganda campaign already begun by Germany in the U.S.A. By Septem-ber, the Propaganda Department had been established in Wellington House inCentral London, under the aegis of the Foreign Office and with Masterman asits Director. It was the first time that such a department had existed in Britainand it was the first war in which all the belligerents came to possess such aninstitution.The purpose of the Department was to gain the sympathy of in.uentialneutrals and reinforce home support for the war. A good deal of its work,therefore, involved the production and distribution of material presenting thewar from the Allied point of view. At this stage the material in question in-cluded articles, write-ups of interviews, photographs, maps, lantern slides,posters, post-cards, etc.—essentially information that lent itself to easy repro-duction by mechanical means and that, generally speaking, echoed the typeof didactic entertainment so appreciated by the late Victorians andEdwardians
