“For propagandists, whatever promoted the Allied cause was true, whether factual or not. What counted was the noble end – victory – not the sordid means of achieving it. ‘Truth and falsehood are arbitrary terms,’ declared a CPI official. ‘There is nothing in experience to tell us that one is always preferable to the other... There are lifeless truths and vital lies... The force of an idea lies in its inspirational value. It matters very little if it is true or false.”