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• Falsehood in War-Time by Arthur Ponsonby (1928)

“Facts must be distorted, relevant circumstances concealed and a picture presented which by its crude colouring ill persuade the ignorant people that their Government is blameless, their cause is righteous, and that the indisputable wickedness of the enemy has been proved beyond question.“
“Departments have to be created to see to the psychological side. People must never be allowed to become despondent; so victories must be exaggerated and defeats, if not concealed, at any rate minimized, and the stimulus of indignation, horror, and hatred must be assiduously and continuously pumped into the public mind by means of propaganda.”
“… the injection of the poison of hatred into men’s minds by means of falsehood is a greater evil in wartime than the actual loss of life. The defilement of the human soul is worse than the destruction of the human body.”
[…]
“War being established as a recognized institution to be resorted to when Governments quarrel, the people are more or less prepared. They quite willingly delude themselves in order to justify their own actions.
They are anxious to ﬁnd an excuse for displaying their patriotism, or they are disposed to seize the opportunity for the excitement and new life of adventure which war opens out to them. So there is a sort of national wink, everyone goes forward, and the individual, in his turn, takes up lying as a patriotic duty. “
[…]
“The British official propaganda department at Crewe House, under Lord Northcliffe, was highly successful.”
[…]”

More here …
https://juliusskoolafish.substack.com/p/falsehood-in-war-time-by-arthur-ponsonby

4 COMMENTS

Ned July 15, 2026 At 8:57 am

Who says it is not all fun?
And the joke is on we idiots.
857

Julius Skoolafish July 15, 2026 At 9:21 am

LIBERTY, EQUALITY, FRATERNITY! … FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY!!

Julius Skoolafish July 15, 2026 At 9:28 am

• Debunking a Century of War Lies – James Corbett Report
https://www.corbettreport.com/warlies/

Video here:
https://odysee.com/@corbettreport:0/debunking-a-century-of-war-lies:a

Julius Skoolafish July 15, 2026 At 9:32 am

• Falsehood in War-Time by Arthur Ponsonby (1928)

“Facts must be distorted, relevant circumstances concealed and a picture presented which by its crude colouring ill persuade the ignorant people that their Government is blameless, their cause is righteous, and that the indisputable wickedness of the enemy has been proved beyond question.“
“Departments have to be created to see to the psychological side. People must never be allowed to become despondent; so victories must be exaggerated and defeats, if not concealed, at any rate minimized, and the stimulus of indignation, horror, and hatred must be assiduously and continuously pumped into the public mind by means of propaganda.”
“… the injection of the poison of hatred into men’s minds by means of falsehood is a greater evil in wartime than the actual loss of life. The defilement of the human soul is worse than the destruction of the human body.”
[…]
“War being established as a recognized institution to be resorted to when Governments quarrel, the people are more or less prepared. They quite willingly delude themselves in order to justify their own actions.
They are anxious to ﬁnd an excuse for displaying their patriotism, or they are disposed to seize the opportunity for the excitement and new life of adventure which war opens out to them. So there is a sort of national wink, everyone goes forward, and the individual, in his turn, takes up lying as a patriotic duty. “
[…]
“The British official propaganda department at Crewe House, under Lord Northcliffe, was highly successful.”
[…]”

More here …
https://juliusskoolafish.substack.com/p/falsehood-in-war-time-by-arthur-ponsonby

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