Word: amerika
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...teach democracy to postwar Germans, the United States Information Service set up 40 Amerika Häuser and stocked them with a wide selection of reading material in English and German, including books banned by Hitler. Last year some 15 million Germans flocked to the U.S. libraries, and the then U.S. High Commissioner, John J. McCloy, praised the scheme for counteracting twelve years of "one-sided information...
Ever since the State Department launched Amerika, a LiFE-like Russian-language picture magazine, in 1945, it has been a thorn in the Communists' side. To remove the thorn, the Soviet government methodically harassed Amerika, censoring articles and cutting its circulation-in violation of an agreement with the U.S. to distribute 50,000 copies (TIME, June 23). Even so, Amerika proved so popular that a lively black market flourished, with copies selling for twice present newsstand price of five rubles (about...
Last week, after repeated protests to the Reds, State did what the Russians wanted: it closed up Amerika. In retaliation, State ordered the Reds to stop U.S. circulation of the Soviet Embassy's U.S.S.R. Information Bulletin and other embassy pamphlets, a meaningless counterblow, since the Reds can print all the propaganda they want to in Manhattan's Daily Worker and other Communist publications. Said the New York Times: "The suspension of Amerika is regrettable because it was the last direct means of giving the Russian people a glimpse of American life and American aims in refutation of Soviet...
When reading the June 23 article of the probable death knell of Amerika magazine, I felt great concern. The next day, in my daily paper, there was a story of the increasingly virulent campaign the Russian government is carrying on internally against the U.S. One of our few opportunities of bringing the truth to the Russian people has been Amerika. Knowingly, in the face of the fantastic lies about us which the Russian government are feeding their people, should it be permitted to languish? Isn't this, rather, the moment to use every possible means to increase its effectiveness...
...eliminate publications of proven worth." She asked for a hearing before the U.S. Advisory Commission on Information to point out that the move would mean the end of a program the Government had spent millions developing, and which had a proven propaganda worth. But it looks as if Amerika will die, thus accomplishing by State's bumbling what the Russians have failed...