“The essential job is to get people to recognise war propaganda when they see it, especially when it is disguised as peace propaganda.”

Review of The Men I Killed by Brigadier-General F. P. Crozier, CB, CMG, DSO, in New Statesman and Nation (28 August 1937)

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