New Britain herald., 1917-07-11
PUBLICITY PANACEA
 FOR GERMAN B00GIE
"Spread Facts Of War;" Is Lord
 N0rthChffe'S Advice

this country, urged in a speech he made yesterday at a luncheon in ms honor given at the Hotel Biltmore by the Overseas club. of which he Is the founder. that the facts about the war be told as the best means of defeatlhs enemy propaganda. Tho OVer-oeas club is an oreanization of British sub jects in all parts of the world.
 Spread the facts," was the sermon Lord Northcliffe preached. Although he made no mention of censorship in his address, it was Lord Northcliffe who most bitterly attacked the British censorship in the first part of the war, which he thought, kept from the public facts about the war the public should have had.
 Wen he arose to speak, Lord North cliffe began by paying reference to the work of the German press in America.
 q would like to make a rousing speech to you today" he said. But in this country there is very active German press which makes a practice of twisting every word said by a rep resentative of the Allies in this coun- try. Therefore, I shall do what I have not done before in this country, read every word of my speech, so that
 
 already in his hands,
 Then Lord Northcliffe read his speech, in the course of which he said
 Further, I ask the members (of this club) to do all in their power to counteract the very insidious enemy propaganda which seeks to start causes of friction between the Allies and to bring about a peace which would really mean a German victory.
 ''The best way to fight enemy pro- paganda is to spread the knowledge of the facts of the war. It is easy to twist motives. It is easy to impute sinister intentions. It is fatally easy to dig up long-buried animosities. Spread the facts. Some of the facts of what Britain has done I have skeletonized already. There are plenty of other facts which have not the time to detail. Give publicity to the facts in every way possible to you"
 There was long applause when Lord Northcliffe said:
 'We Britons are slow. It is the temperament of the race We were slow in realizing the reality of the German menace. We were slow in estimating the power of the Gar man armies. We were slow in organizing ourselves to meet the full necessities of the war. But though we are slow, I think I may claim that we are thorough. When the bull dog catches hold. it keeps hold. We shall hang on. We shall see this thing through to a finish"
 In reviewing the plishments of Great Britain in the war the speaker said:
 
 more pride in having founded the Overseas club than in any other of my past activities. And, therefore, it is with particular pleasure that I ad- dress this gathering of the represen- tative British men and women of New York, called together by the New York branch of the Overseas club. Speaks As Briton to Britons. I speak as one Briton to other Britons. My three themes are what Britain has done in this war: what the Overseas Club has done in this war: what Britons in the United States should do to help this ghastly up- heaval
 When I speak of Britain I refer to the five united British nations-Great Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zea- land, South Africa-to Newfoundland the West Indies, and the other units of empire upon which the sun never sets. There is no red spot. however tiny, on the map of the British En- | pire which has not freely and gladly poured out it's red blood in the rally | to the motherland and world liberty. 'If the British methods of govern | ance ever needed testim onial that { testimonial lies there. The rousing of l olo e, p,,;<i <i~1 one country. The Germans reckoned on dissension. We showed them unity.
 What Britain has done In the first place, we bottled up the German High Seas Fleet; swept the trade routes clear of German raiders. and 1 prevented Great Britain and France 1 being blockaded by sea and strangled. ] The British Navy saved democracy l in the early days of the war. i Tn the second place. Britain but 1 tressed the worlds credit. Every one will remember tho panic in the early days of August, 1914. when securities of all kinds were tumbling to apparent disaster Britain stopped that panic, | and began from the very start of the war to advance loans to its Allies ! to the extent, finally, of over five thousand million dollars.
 In the third place, Britain provid- ed the other members of the Allies with vast quantities of shipping. coal, material and other vital necessities.
 ''In the fourth place, we raised huge 1 popular loans for the conduct of the | war. The last Victory Loan totaled to 1 over six thousand million dollars. It was by far the biggest loan ever | raised by any nation.
 'In the fifth place, the five united l British nations recruited under the | volunteer system millions of IIen be- 1 fore they were obliged to resort to l conscript1on. Millions of men offered 1 themselves for the fight. I am no ad- l