The CPI or Committee of Public Information/Creel committee was founded during WW1.
It was an independent US government agency, headed by George Creel. It was established April 13, 1917.
The CPI had a solid purpose; The goal was to gain influence over the public opinion, in order to gain US support and US participation in WW1.
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The spines protect the cactus from predators eating it.
Well there's no simple answer to this; the French and English have had a long history of discord- they weee at war for a hundred years after all!