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Office of War Information (OWI), U.S. agency created (1942) during World War II to consolidate government information services. The OWI absorbed the functions of the Office of Facts and Figures, the Office of Government Reports, the division of information of the Office for Emergency Management, and the foreign information service of the Coordinator of Information. Elmer Davis Davis, Elmer, 1890–1958, American newspaperman, radio commentator, and author, b. Aurora, Ind. Davis was a Rhodes scholar (1910–13) at Oxford. For 10 years (1914–24) he was on the staff of the New York Times.
..... Click the link for more information. was named director. Besides coordinating the release of war news for domestic use, the office established an overseas branch, under Robert E. Sherwood Sherwood, Robert Emmet, 1896–1955, American dramatist, b. New Rochelle, N.Y., grad. Harvard, 1918. After serving in World War I, he wrote for Vanity Fair and Life, serving as editor of the latter from 1924 to 1928.
..... Click the link for more information. , which launched a huge information and propaganda campaign abroad. Congressional opposition to the domestic operations of the OWI resulted in increasingly curtailed funds, and by 1944 the OWI operated mostly in the foreign field, contributing to undermining enemy morale. The agency was abolished in 1945, and its foreign functions were transferred to the Dept. of State.

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See W. Carroll, Persuade or Perish (1948).

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using the neutrality of Sweden and Switzerland to deliver the message) and "was issued as propaganda through the Office of War information.

Racing the Enemy -- Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan by Albawaba.com

using the neutrality of Sweden and Switzerland to deliver the message) and "was issued as propaganda through the Office of War information.

Book Review: Racing the Enemy by The Palestine Chronicle (Mountlake Terrace, WA)

He drew propaganda cartoons for the Office of War Information during WWII, which were dropped behind enemy lines in the China-Burma-India Theater.

Legendary Cartoonist and Children?s Author Syd Hoff--An American ... by Dr. Michael Rabinoff / Family and marriage community

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