Review: Nazi Wireless Propaganda: Lord Haw-Haw and British Public Opinion in the Second World War * Martin A. Doherty: Nazi Wireless Propaganda: Lord Haw-Haw and British Public Opinion in the Second World War

2003 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 313-315
Author(s):  
S. Nicholas
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Second World

scholarly journals From Pariahs to Patriots: Canadian Communists and the Second World War

2008 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Frazer
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Communist Party ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Royal Canadian Mounted Police ◽  
Mackenzie King ◽  
Communist Party Of Canada ◽  
Second World

Official anti-communist policies, adopted by the Mackenzie King government during the Second World War, were only partially effective. These policies were implemented by the RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) and the armed forces high command, and included internment, banning the Communist Party of Canada (cpc), and monitoring communists in the armed forces. These policies, however, were thwarted by the logic of the war, as well as by opposition from liberal public opinion and the communists themselves.

Censorship, Propaganda and Public Opinion: The case of the Katyn Graves, 1943

1989 ◽  
Vol 39 ◽  
pp. 63-83
Author(s):  
P. M. H. Bell
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Mass Graves ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Second World

THE SUBJECT of this paper is not the sombre story of the mass graves at Katyn, filled with the corpses of murdered Polish officers; nor will it deal directly with the question of who killed those officers. I approach these events in the course of research on the relationship between public opinion and foreign policy in Britain during the Second World War, and on the closely related matters of censorship and propaganda as practised by the British government in that period. The diplomatic crisis produced by the affair of the Katyn graves was one in which publicity was freely used as an instrument of policy—indeed sometimes policy and publicity were indistinguishable. Those who controlled British censorship and propaganda, and attempted to guide public opinion, were faced with acute and wideranging problems. It is the object of this paper to analyse those problems, to see how the government tried to cope with them, and to trace the reactions of the press and public opinion, as a case study in the extent and limitations of government influence in such matters.

The Scott Report and the Labour Party: The Protection of the Countryside during the Second World War

Rural History ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
MICHAEL TICHELAR
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Labour Party ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Physical Planning ◽  
World War ◽  
The Look ◽  
Second World ◽  
The Way

The article will seek to plot the position of the Labour Party in relation to debates during the Second World War between rural preservationists and agricultural modernisers. It will review the recommendations of the Scott Report into land utilisation in rural areas, and outline recent research into popular attitudes to the countryside. It will then describe the way the Labour Party responded to these developments and draw some longer-term conclusions about their significance in relation to current debates about national identity and the countryside. It will be argued that while the Labour Party supported the need to protect the look of the landscape as part of the nation's heritage and national identity, in line with public opinion at the time, it also sought to encourage the physical planning of both town and country in a way that rejected some of the more anti-metropolitan tendencies of the rural preservationists.

Shoring up the System: The ALP and Arbitration in the 1940s

1989 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-21
Author(s):  
Tom Sheridan
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Bargaining Power ◽  
Full Employment ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Political Authority ◽  
World War ◽  
Employment Conditions ◽  
Australian Economy ◽  
Second World

The years immediately after the Second World War witnessed over-full employment in the Australian economy. The workforce, backed by public opinion, sought to reap gains in employment conditions after years of restraint. High on the unions' official agenda was reform of the federal arbitration system, which dominated the wage-fixing process. In 1947 the ALP government amended the Conciliation and Arbitration Act. Although endowed with unprecedented constitutional and political authority, the Chifley government failed to meet the main expectations of its union constituents. The system remained centralized and dominated by a small bench of judges. Chifley's appointments to the bench failed to depart from the conservative norm. The Labor government's overwhelming motivation was to hold down wage costs and cushion the economy from the shock of industrial labour's newfound bargaining power.

“Under your inspired leadership”: Dwight Eisenhower, Canadians, and the Canada–United States consensus, 1945–1961

2020 ◽  
Vol 75 (4) ◽  
pp. 471-486
Author(s):  
Asa McKercher ◽  
Michael D. Stevenson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
The United States ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
White House ◽  
Core Elements ◽  
Post War ◽  
Second World

Drawing on newspaper and archival sources, this article examines post-war Canadian attitudes towards Dwight D. Eisenhower, particularly during his time in office as the United States President from 1953 to 1961. Eisenhower emerged from the Second World War as a trusted figure for many Canadians due to his inspiring leadership of the Allied cause. Once in the White House, however, his reputation began to suffer, and public opinion in Canada increasingly questioned core elements of the traditional Canada–United States relationship and America's ability to lead the Western alliance during a period of heightening Cold War tensions.

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