Stamp collecting, or philatelics, involves soaking stamps to remove them from envelopes, sorting them, and then mounting them in an album. The Oxford Handbook stated that propaganda is not necessarily evil, is not always in a fixed form, is not always entirely totalitarian, and can take on meanings unintended by the original creators of the propaganda. “Propaganda” is Latin in origin, and originally referred to the Vatican’s methods of spreading the Catholic faith across lands. In Exodus, God warned Moses to not propagate, or spread falsified rumors. The Oxford Handbook of Propaganda Studies stated that the term “propaganda” was derived from the Bible. It is unclear who wrote this letter, but they voiced their opinions concerning the war and tried to convince the philatelist they addressed to join Japan’s side. In addition to the letter, Navarre found a newspaper article from the Fitchburg Sentinel stating that the letter was a form of wartime propaganda. In the letter, he discussed events transpiring during the second world war with an anonymous individual, whom Ichida referred to as his “fellow philatelist,” living in China. Susan Navarre, the Executive Director of the Fitchburg Historical Society, found a 1937 letter written by a philatelist in Tokyo named Sohichi Ichida.
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