... was to reach the public via mass media. Information that would bring down the morale of the people was never published. Numerous photographs and stories weren't published during the Blitz. The Treachery Act that was set up in 1940 gave the government the right to now imprison anyone whose actions were a threat to the morale of the people of Britain, because a demoralized population would be likely to surrender. Photographs that showed large numbers of casualties and a lot of destruction weren't allowed to be published such as a photograph taken of a school playground in Catford, London was withheld because it showed dead children and one of a bomb which had broken through into an Underground station. If people saw a photograph of dead children they would naturally feel awful about what was happening and they would come to think about how innocent children had to pay with ...

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