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War Propaganda: Lloyd George
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One of the most insightful authors of the Cold War was George Orwell, whose novels Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four are virtual textbooks on the use of propaganda. Though not set in the Soviet Union, these books are about totalitarian regimes in which language is constantly corrupted for political purposes. These novels were used for explicit propaganda. The CIA, for example, secretly commissioned an animated film adaptation of Animal Farm in the 1950s with small changes to the original story to suit its own needs.
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Under Asquith, propaganda was dispersed among different groups in departments such as the Home Office, the Foreign Office and the War Office. When Lloyd George became prime minister in December 1916, the war propaganda effort was re-structured along more co-ordinated lines. Within three months, a Department of Information had been created (under the remit of the Foreign Office), which in turn became the Ministry of Information in February 1918.
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In turn, the propaganda campaign develops a casus belli, "a justification", a political legitimacy for waging war. The "official reality" (conveyed profusely in George W’s speeches) rests on the broad "humanitarian" premise of a so-called "pre-emptive", namely "defensive war", "a war to protect freedom":
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