ABSTRACT
In January 1948, Britain launched a new propaganda policy designed to ‘oppose the inroads of communism by taking the offensive against it’ Britain’s ‘future foreign publicity policy’ was outlined in a paper presented to the Cabinet at its first meeting of 1948. It stated that since the end of the War, Soviet propaganda, had carried on ‘a vicious attack against the British Commonwealth and against Western democracy.’ The time had come to ‘pass over to the offensive and not leave the initiative to the enemy, but make them defend themselves.’ It also claimed that it was up to Britain, as a European social democratic government, and not the Americans to take the lead in uniting the forces of anti-communism.1
