Woodrow Wilson to Benedict Crowell

Title

Woodrow Wilson to Benedict Crowell

Creator

Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924

Identifier

WWP22484

Date

1918 September 5

Source

Library of Congress, Woodrow Wilson Papers, 1786-1957

Text

My dear Mr. Secretary:
Recurring to what I spoke of for a moment yesterday in our little war conference, may I not ask for information about a matter which I am very jealous about?I am told that the War Department is, through its intelligence officers, in some way interesting itself in the matter of propaganda abroad, and I would be very much obliged if you would make inquiry and find how far this is true and what is being attempted, because it is my wish to keep the matter of propaganda entirely in my own hands and I had not known that any other agencies than those I had set up were attempting to interest themselves in it. I regard nothing as more delicate or more intimately associated with the policy of the administration than propaganda, and if any agency of the Army is attempting to organize propaganda of any sort or to take a hand in controlling it, I would be very much obliged if you would "call them off". You will know how to do so kindly and without intimating any criticism on my part, but only my sense of the absolute necessity of my directing that whole matter.

Cordially and sincerely yours,

Woodrow Wilson


Hon. Benedict Crowell,
Acting Secretary of War.



Original Format

Letter

To

Benedict Crowell

Files

http://resources.presidentwilson.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/WWI1166.pdf

Collection

Citation

Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924, “Woodrow Wilson to Benedict Crowell,” 1918 September 5, WWP22484, World War I Letters, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum, Staunton, Virginia.