AMERICA & THE WAR

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 205, 25 May 1921, Page 5

AMERICA & THE WAR

J. P. MORGAN INTERESTS AND JHE

U.S. PRESS

ALLEGED PURCHASE FOR BRITISH PROPAGANDA

By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright (Rec. May £4,'8.35 p.m.) Washington, May 21 (delayed).

A new member of tho House of Representatives, Mr. Michaelson, of Chicago, lias revived charges that the J. P. Morgan interests bought up tho United States Press for British propaganda during the War. Mr. Michaelson demands an investigation of what-he terms a conspiracy, and an inquiry into the statements made by M. Hanotaux, former French Minister of War, and Sir Gilbert Parker (in charge of American publicity for over two and a half years after war was declared). Mr. Michaelson charges M. Hanotaux wlith having istated that France was ready for peace late in 1914. but the Morgan interests and Air. Myron T. Herrick (United States Ambassador to France till December, 1914), and Mr. W. G. Sharp (who succeeded Mr. Herrick as Ambassador in Paris), dissuaded M. Hanotaux from this view, and promised to initiate a campaign to bring the United States into the conflict. Representative Calloway (Texas) in 1917 charged Mr. Morgan with securing twelve men to form a plan to secure control ot 179 newspapers, but they found 25 sufficient for British propaganda. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.