“I used the U.S. public relations technique to my own advantage,” Chanderli claimed to the author: “I always tried to tell the truth, at least more truth than the French, and let the French get caught out in their own lies.” Sagely he instructed his own staff: “The United States is the land of truth, so give it the truth. But that of others, of the French who are disgusted by the war, and we’ll add no commentary.”

XREF: Connects to broader histories of propaganda suppression and the tension between diplomacy and public relations in colonial conflicts.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 764