AA Milne famously denounced war in his pacifist essay “Peace with Honour,” but classified documents found in an old trunk reveal the author of Winnie the Pooh was recruited by a secret propaganda unit during the first world war.
Jeremy Arter was sorting through old paperwork in his aunt’s home when he stumbled across rare, classified documents from MI7b, a military propaganda outfit that worked with writers to present a positive version of the war to those at home.
Winnie the Pooh author AA Milne was a WWI propagandist. But perhaps that’s not so surprising given many famous children’s authors infused their books with political propaganda, and Dr. Seuss even made explicit propaganda cartoons for the government.
