Citizens’ Organizations and the Postwar World
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 July 2025
Chapter 5 explores how war once again brought PR and the US government closer together, before examining how PR firms engaged in the debates over the shape of the postwar world. Both the John Price Jones Corporation and Harold L. Oram Inc. supported the American Association for the United Nations, reflecting the popular “one world” viewpoint of the time. Yet Oram also provided PR support to the Committee for the Marshall Plan. The Marshall Plan was part of a more aggressive US policy of containment and seemed at odds with the desire to support the universal UN. Yet as the Cold War intensified, international events forced many fading Wilsonians to reluctantly move away from a “one world” to a “Cold War” position. Even the more internationalist-leaning PR counselors such as Jones and Oram found themselves adopting an increasingly anticommunist position that aligned with the government and only intensified in the 1950s.
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