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Historian Justin McCarthy exposes

Wellington House

Famous American history professor Justin McCarthy, who is an expert on
the Ottoman Empire, Turks and the Middle East, offers the following im-
portant details about Wellington House and its anti-Turkish propaganda ac-
tivities:

Wellington House drew on some of the best minds in the British government.
The historian Arnold Toynbee was an adviser to Wellington House from 1914
and sat until 1917 on the committee that met daily and set propaganda poli-
cies. … Other private and public figures and members of ostensibly non-gov-

ernmental patriotic organizations cooperated with or acted under the direc-
tion of the official propagandists. British Universities provided propaganda
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pamphlets and expertise.
By the standards of the time, the British propaganda effort was a major un-
dertaking. By 1917, Wellington House had a staff of 54 and could call on help
from other departments and ministries. …

The first report (June, 1915) of Wellington House listed distribution of ap-
proximately 2.5 million copies of books, pamphlets, and other written propa-
ganda in 17 languages. The second report (February, 1916) listed 7 million
copies circulated. In 1914, British Propaganda distributed 45 different publi-
cations; in 1915, 132; in 1916, 202; in 1917, 469. Unfortunately no record of
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distribution beyond 1917 exists. It can be assumed that the numbers contin-
ued to grow. All was done in secret and was done creatively.
The Wellington House brief was simple, the same brief as that of all propa-
gandists. They were to make the enemies look as bad as possible and make their
friends, and especially British themselves, look as good as could be. Their main
focus was, naturally, Germany, but much effort was expended against the

Turks…
… they destroyed all the records of the Propaganda Office immediately after
the war. This has made it difficult to reconstruct the activities of the wartime
propaganda office. [However], some Wellington House records were sent to

other offices in the British Government. Although the originals were destroyed,
copies were sometimes kept in relevant Foreign Office departments, especial-
ly in the Foreign Office records for the United States. The number of documents
is modest, but they indicate some small part of Wellington House operations
against the Turks.

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