<Li> Edward Bernays, a pioneer in public relations and later theorist of the importance of propaganda to democratic governance . He directed the CPI's Latin News Service . The CPI's poor reputation prevented Bernays from handling American publicity at the 1919 Peace Conference as he wanted . </Li> <Li> Vira Boarman Whitehouse, director of the CPI's office in Switzerland . She repeatedly crossed into Germany to deliver propaganda materials . She later told of her experiences in A Year as a Government Agent (1920). </Li> <Li> Ernest Poole . Poole was the co Director of the Foreign Press Bureau division . Poole was awarded the very first Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel, His Family . </Li> <Li> Carl R. Byoir (1886--1957), like Bernays, a founding father of public relations in America . </Li>

What is not a way that the committee on public information gained support for the war