Jello14

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• on Who's for the Game? by Jessie Pope, on June 4

  But how was she supposed to know that?

  Don't forget, Jessie Pope was not a frontline soldier, or nurse, or reporter. She would not have witnessed any of this first-hand. In a country STILL awash in pro-war propaganda, Jessie Pope was more than likely as brainwashed as the rest of the country. Sure, we'd lost a lot of men by then, and sure other people had published anti-war poems and accounts, but they were still very much in the minority, and pooh-poohed by government officials as rubbish. First-hand accounts of the front were heavily censored, and not widely published. Pro-war accounts were carefully selected to adorn the morning newspaper, telling everybody that the war was going well and we were doing a good job.
  So yeah, Pope was probably naive, but she was by no means the only one. If anything, she was just another victim of the same sort of propaganda she was employed to write. Gullible -yes. Evil - no.