Voice and Vision
Voice and Vision was a public relations firm. It began as a subsidiary of advertising firm Colman, Prentis and Varley and at one stage it was the 'biggest PR organization in Britain'.[1]
In 1961 it was involved in 'one of the best known political operation in Britain' for the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland - commonly known as the Central African Federation:
- The campaign used straight advertising in the serious press. It also included taking forty members of Parliament to the Federation for a fortnight's tour; half of the MPs were Labour, and the man responsible for the job of choosing them was a former Lobby Correspondent of the Daily Herald. Only two of the forty MPs were critical of the Federation upon return, but the campaign, though successful in this respect, backfired from the point of view of the large amount of bad publicity which the MPs free trips received in the press.[2]
In 1967 the firm was retained by the Joint Palestine Appeal. It produced 10,000 'STOP NASSER NOW' car stickers, and a 320 page book entitled 'Six Days in June' to commemorate the war (largely made up of advertisements, each page costing £500 – this raised another £200,000).[3]
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- Andrew Cohen '“Voice and Vision” – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland’s Public Relations Campaign in Britain: 1960-1963', Historia 54,2, November 2009, pp 113-132
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