| AdminHistory | RWSW was released from regular duties shortly after his call up into the Royal Army Medical Corps in order to work for the Intelligence Bureau of Department of Information in May 1917. The purpose of the bureau was to study the conditions and opinions of foreign countries, especially enemy countries and produce reports and memoranda for use by Government and the Department's own Propaganda sections. RWSW's primary responsibility was to provide regular reports on internal developments in Austria-Hungary. In addition he wrote a number of other reports and memoranda. In March 1918, with the Intelligence Bureau the subject of inter-departmental wrangling, RWSW moved to a post in the newly created Department of Enemy Propaganda where he became co-director of the Austro-Hungarian section. His role was to create propaganda policy. As the end of the war neared the Department began to move towards creating peace propaganda but work in this area was curtailed with Department's closure at the war's end in November 1918. |