10 Parting Thoughts for America's Diplomats
Via JB10 Parting Thoughts for America's DiplomatsAs one of America's foremost diplomats hangs up his spurs, lessons from 33 years at the State Department. Foreign AffairsBY WILLIAM J. BURNS OCTOBER 23,...
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A quite worth reading Wikipedia entry on George Creel, despite certain...
FromGeorge CreelFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaGeorge CreelGeorge Creel (December 1, 1876 – October 2, 1953) was an investigative journalist, a politician, and, most famously, the head of the...
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Theodore Roosevelt on Propaganda Tsar George Creel, Chairman of the Committee...
Note for a Planned Article"Creel, Lippmann, and the Origins of American Public Diplomacy"(comments welcome; draft, not for citation)"The [Wilson] administration, through the Publicity Bureau, under the...
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Propaganda and Censorship: The Case of George Creel, Chairman of the...
Note for a Planned Article"Creel, Lippmann, and the Origins of American Public Diplomacy"(comments welcome; draft, not for citation)Along with his position as Chairman of the Committee on Public...
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Why historians can't write poetry ...
You are my age when you were born,But you're too bright to be forlon.The world's still there for you to see; You are my light to history.image fromYou are so gentle and so sweet,You shape the place...
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H.L. Mencken, at his most vitriolic, on USA anti-German WWI propaganda, with...
From H. L. Mencken, "Star-Spangled Men," The New Republic, Vol. 24, Issue 304, 118 ff.:For the grand cordons of the order, e.g., college professors who spied upon and reported the seditions of their...
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Creel and Lippmann Face to Face
Note for a Planned Article"Creel, Lippmann, and the Origins of American Public Diplomacy"(comments welcome; draft, not for citation)Note: the reference to "Steel" in the below text refersto the...
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World War I American Propaganda Images
FromWartime PropagandaWorld War I"The War To End All Wars""As generally understood, propaganda is opinion expressed for the purpose of influencing actions of individuals or groups... Propaganda thus...
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Propaganda Tsar George Creel, Chairman of the Committee on Public...
Note for a Planned Article"Creel, Lippmann, and the Origins of American Public Diplomacy"(comments welcome; draft, not for citation)Creel was a publicist, not a philosopher. Unlike Water Lippmann's...
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Why historians can't write poetry (II)
Today I lost my keysAnd got down on my kneesDear God, I prayed, please help:All I can do is yelp.I ransacked desk and floorAnd Christ did I get sore.image fromI gave up hope and searchAnd thought of...
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Propaganda Tsar George Creel, Chairman of the Committee on Public Information...
Note for a Planned Article"Creel, Lippmann, and the Origins of American Public Diplomacy"(comments welcome; draft, not for citation)"Creel never abandoned his faith in 'the fact,' but as the war went...
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Press and Congressional Criticisms of Propaganda Tsar George Creel, Chairman...
Note for a Planned Article"Creel, Lippmann, and the Origins of American Public Diplomacy"(comments welcome; draft, not for citation)In Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Box OV 7, the following...
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Creel and Muckraking, or How War Employs Intellectuals
Note for a Planned Article"Creel, Lippmann, and the Origins of American Public Diplomacy"(comments welcome; draft, not for citation)George Creel, Chairman of the Committee on Public Information -- the...
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"Souvenez-vous" -- French Post-WWI propaganda/advertising postcard
FromFrom the internet: Origin of Boche: French slang, contr; from tête de caboche, hard head, head of cabbage (see cabbage); Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2010 by Wiley...
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The linguistic adventures of "Creeling" -- a WWI-era American-English word...
Note for a Planned Article"Creel, Lippmann, and the Origins of American Public Diplomacy"(comments welcome; draft, not for citation)image fromThe word "creeling" during, and for some time after, WWI,...
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Map that Showing the Ancestry of Americans. Note for a lecture, "E Pluribus...
From dailymail.co.ukThe map that shows where America came from: Fascinating illustration shows the ancestry of EVERY county in the USCensus data shows heritage of 317 million modern AmericansClusters...
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Criticisms of George Creel, the Chairman of the first USG Propaganda Agency,...
Note for a Planned Article"Creel, Lippmann, and the Origins of American Public Diplomacy"(comments welcome; draft, not for citation)Image fromJB: On a personal note, may I especially recommend the...
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From Mock, James R. and Larson. Words That Won the War: The Committee on Public Information, 1917-1919. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1939, pp, vii-viii:On July 6, 1937, trucks rolled up...
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"Poem" on Walter Lippmann by his Harvard classmate John Reed
Note for a Planned Article"Creel, Lippmann, and the Origins of American Public Diplomacy"(comments welcome; draft, not for citation)Lippmann image fromLippmann, -- calm, inscrutable,Thinking and...
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“Creel, Lippmann, and the Origins of American Public Diplomacy": A Select...
Note for a Planned Article"Creel, Lippmann, and the Origins of American Public Diplomacy"Draft; work in progress; not for citation; comments welcomeimage fromAlbright, [Madeleine]. "The Importance of...
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