What a splendid piece of information - thank you Lisa.
For anyone who is interested, the article can be found
on-line at:
http://www.the-tls.co.uk/this_week/story.aspx?story_id=2109695
With best regards
David Page
--- Lisa Lewis <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Today's edition of the Times Literary Supplement
> includes (pp.12-13) an
> article "On the literary front" by historian A.D.
> Harvey about how writers were
> recruited as World War I propagandists, quoting
> papers in the National
> Archives at Kew. A number of famous names are
> mentioned, especially John Buchan;
> but it is Kipling whose pamphlet MUN 5/48/267/3 is
> quoted extensively in a
> separate box (p. 13). He argued that workers in
> various types of factory
> making munitions, aeroplanes, guns and other war
> materiel would be greatly
> heartened if they could be told, or shown on film,
> how their products were being
> used. For instance, he says, "It is not generally
> realized that a large
> number of aeroplane workers in factories have the
> very sketchiest ideas of what an
> aeroplane does or can do."
> Happy New Year to all of you, Lisa Lewis
>
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