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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deliberate manufacture of atrocity stories, misrepresentation of enemy aims, minimizing of enemy successes, exaggeration of enemy defeats, the conscious manipulation of sentiments to arouse war spirit, hatred of the enemy at home and sympathy among neutrals abroad. The pattern of propaganda remains the same, though varying in degree and accent according to the country it comes from. The threefold task of propaganda ministries will still be in World War II as it was in World War I: 1) to undermine enemy morale; 2) hearten home forces; 3) give neutrals the very best impression possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Fact & Fiction | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

...stores and breaking into private apartments. . . . Many used the moment to settle political grudges, and the city is filled with rumors of assassinations. . . . Poles feel themselves betrayed by their Allies and tonight demoralization is spreading rapidly. The fall of Warsaw is expected tomorrow." Because of the announcer's accent, and because Warsaw 1, unheard for several hours, had been thought bombed, many listeners to this broadcast smelled a Nazi. Sure enough, later that evening Warsaw's Radio Station 2 came on, warned Poles against broadcasts purporting to come from Station 1, which had been disabled; assured its listeners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: At Home & Abroad | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

...sell Studebaker cars, accent on that marvel low-cost transportation and thing of beauty, the New Studebaker Champion. Items above mentioned are stock equipment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 11, 1939 | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

...infuriated when "clematis" was pronounced incorrectly, with the accent on the second instead of the first syllable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 7, 1939 | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

...made his London stage name as a juvenile smart enough for Noel Coward shows, his screen debut in the English version of Sorrell and Son. Brought to Hollywood four years ago, he swashbuckled promisingly in Anthony Adverse but soon ran into an unpredictable snag: he began losing his British accent. Last year Producer Edward Small rescued him from the B's and supporting parts to skate in The Duke of West Point after the death of British Skater Jack Dunn, liked him well enough to entrust him with his crucial part in The Man in the Iron Mask...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 24, 1939 | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

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