LORD NORTH CLIFFE'S ENEMY PROPAGANDA WORK.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16423, 17 January 1919, Page 8

LORD NORTH CLIFFE'S ENEMY PROPAGANDA WORK.

Correcting a slight error in the report of his speech at a recent luncheon ?o him at the Connaught Rooms, London Mr Robert Donald .writes: lam reported to have saidj refernng to e way in which the truth about the war had been hidden from the German people, that: 'Some timo Pgo Hmdenfmnr raised a great cry of distress and said Lord Northchfle was demoralising his army and his people. He was a little premature because at that time Lord Northcliffe and his committee had not begun operations in Germany. What I said was that Lord iNorthcutte had not begun 'his major operations, and the word 'major' made a distinction which was orobably only apparent to thoso who know fwmethmg of _the work carried on by Lord JSorthclinejs Enemy Propaganda Committee. Lord Northcliffe took up the work of propaganda in enemy countries with groat energy and on a large scale. He called to his aid a number of experts in publicity and studonts of German psychology—men of international reputat:onJlwlio gave all thoir. time to the work. Previous methods used for spreading propaganda over the enemy lines, balloons, smuggling, etc., vcero improved upon.. All the time Lord Northcliffe was insisting that the War Office should remove the embargo on using aeroplanes for spreading literature among the civilian population a hundred miles or more inside Germans This was the 'major operation to which I referred, and which the supinenoss of the War Office, influenced by German threats, held up. The embargo was removed just about the time Hindonburg raised his cry of alarm and protest against Lord Northcliffo's devastating policy , which was demoralising the army and the people. The fact that the War Lord did so showed that the minor operations were successful and the major offensive must have played its part in disillusioning tho German people and hastening the collapse of tho enemy's resistance."