ABSTRACT
Despite the depth and breadth of Roosevelt’s intelligence about the failure of Cripps’ Offer, the message that Churchill’s information bureaux conveyed to the American people in 1942 had little regard for factual reporting of the collapse of Cripps’ negotiations. Propaganda was thus “a careful process of selection and omission [which] never assumed the proportion of the whole truth.”1 Shaped by the Prime Minister’s reaction to BritishIndian policy since Halifax’s (Viceroy Irwin’s) October 1929 declaration that Dominion Status was the goal for India, propaganda refl ected his opposition to reform and his desire for an earlier status quo.
