British Propaganda to France, 1940—1944 Machinery, Method and Message
British Propaganda to France, 1940—1944 Machinery, Method and Message Annexe One White Propaganda Leaflets Part V: Evidence Material received from France concerning leaflets Tim Brooks © Timothy William Brooks, 2007 2 PART V: EVIDENCE Part V: Evidence Material received from France concerning leaflets 1940 Amiens (Somme) (concerning November 1940) Copy of F.34 (1940) found beside the Somme Canal in Amiens in November 1940. Held by the Musée de la résistance et de la déportation, La Citadelle, 25000 Besançon, France, inventory number 973.238.45. 1941 Bordeaux (Gironde) (evidence dated after 26.12.1940 and received by 30.1.1941). Refers to a suggestion by a Bordelais that next time the town is bombed leaflets should be dropped apologising for the fact. Start date arrived at using M. Middlebrook, & C. Everitt, The Bomber Command War Diaries: An Operational Reference Book 19391945 [henceforth BCWD], Leicester, Midland Publishing, 1996, p.113. Regional Leaflet Committee, Minutes, 30.1.1941, NA: PRO FO 898/428. St.JulienenGenevois (Haute Savoie) (dated 30.1.1941). Refers to copying and distributing RAF propaganda leaflets. ‘Leaflet Raids – the power of the written word,’ excerpted from ‘French public opinion and RAF raids,’ European Intelligence Papers Series 2 No. 10, [henceforth ‘Leaflet Raids’], 6.10.1942, NA: PRO FO 898/469 and BBC Written Archives Centre [BBC WAC] E2/188/2. Le Havre (SeineInferieure) (Letter from Le Havre to Switzerland, dated 21.3.1941) Refers to La France Libre and Courrier de l'Air as aerial leaflets, indicating that the last leaflet received was F.50/5 (1941) Courrier de l'Air.
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