LEAFLET WAR
SIR,---The issue of the Spectator For October 30 gave me more than customary pleasure on account of your interest in the subject of aerial propaganda warfare (p. 576: 'Leaflet War), for this has been a speciality of mine for some time., You wondered whether there are no other collec- tions of propaganda leaflets in existence. You may be interested to know that there 'are, and that such is the interest in this type of material that the collec- tors have collected themselves into an international society (The Psywar Society) the better to study the subject in all its facets. I had.the pleaSure of meeting M. Auckland recently at the first international meeting of this Society in Cologne.
Not only is there a specialist Society, but there is also a specialist handbook: Aerial Propaganda Leaflets, which has been compiled more with the interests of collectors in mind than as a textbook for the academic histOrian (who is. in fact, already catered for by titles the quantity of which is rather astounding).– -Yours faithfully,
JOHN C. W. FIELD Francis J. Field Ltd., Sutton Cold field, Warwickshire
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