George Creel, director of the U.S. Office of War Information, in How We Advertised America (1920). The Germans having trashed the word, Creel claims, the Americans never used it to refer to their own output, but—rightly—favored other, more exalted terms instead: “Our effort was educational and informative throughout, for we had such confidence in our case as to feel that no other argument was needed than the simple, straightforward presentation of facts.”6 That passage is itself, of course, a stunning bit of propaganda,
