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Which government agency would issue this poster? A poster shows a young girl seated on a pile of rubble, holding blue flowers while wearing a dark top and red skirt. Bright circles are drawn around her head, resembling a halo. The caption at the bottom reads, Forget Me Not. Help Save the Belgian Babies. Library of Congress - POS - US .N89, no. 2 [P&P] Food Administration War Industries Board National War Labor Board Committee of Public Information

Answer 1

The correct answer is D) Committee of Public Information.

The government agency that would have issued this poster was the Committee of Public Information.

I have attached the picture referred so you can better see the image.

The title of the picture is "Forget Me Not. Help Save the Belgian Babies." It was created by Josef Pierre Nuyttens. It was a poster during World War 1 years, to support Belgium.

The Committee of Public Information was an agency of the US federal government created on April 13, 1917, to elaborate works of propaganda like the one shown above, aimed to convince the American people that war was necessary and to ask the support of US citizens to the war effort.

Answer 2

The correct answer is that the Committee of Public Information would be the government agency that would have issued such poster. The Committee of Public Information, also known as CPI, was an independent agency of the government of the United States, founded by President Woodrow Wilson, which main objective was to help influence and shape the public opinion of Americans so that they would support the government's decision of going to World War I. It used different techniques to "explain" to the citizens why neutrality was not a good option, and how Germany was a threat to democracy. They used film, speeches and mostly published media as a way of propaganda to get the message to the masses. A poster showing a young girl who clearly has passed away as a result of the war would have been an example of the propaganda issued by the Committee of Public Information.