Word: contented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tone & Content. Brain of the foreign propaganda division is its planning and intelligence board in Washington-which includes an ex-foreign correspondent (the Chicago Daily News's Edgar Ansel Mowrer), an economist (James Warburg), representatives of the Army (Colonel Oscar Solbert), Navy (Captain Homer L. Grosskopf), State Department. The board's job is to sift the vast portfolio of U.S. Government information on domestic and foreign events, pass it on to the operations division in the form of directives that fix the U.S. propaganda line for each country...
These directives determine the tone of U.S. propaganda, but not its content. That is primarily the concern of Operations' International Press & Radio Bureau, which writes all the propaganda that the air waves and cables carry. Bureau Chief Joe Barnes, former foreign news editor of the New York Herald Tribune, and his staff of onetime newspaper, magazine and radio writers turn out enough copy to supply 250 radio shows a day and to service newspapers all over the world...
...falsely identifying the New Deal with communism, the Post jumps the political fence, dividing the American people into two groups: the elite and those who are "relatively useless." This second group "are unable to contribute enough to society to warrant more than a minimum human living standard." Not content to attack progressive, democratic government, these editors flatly deny that millions of Americans have the potential ability to achieve a security and a dignity for themselves...
Arguing that a return to pre-war capitalism would throw Europe into an unprecedented depression at once, Cole submits that the Continent can be peacefully reorganized only if it goes thoroughly Socialist. But, not content with disturbing the cast-iron conservative, the author proceeds to enrage the party-line communist as well. He admits quite candidly that Russia's political structure since 1919 has been illiberal by Western standards, and that Stalin's foreign policy up to June, 1941, was "extraordinarily and perversely blind." This strain of independent mental toughness, of a search for concrete solutions rather than purity...
Theoretical prognosis is, in fact, refreshingly absent from this study. Cole does not assume that Socialism is inevitable; instead, he attempts to demonstrate the absolute necessity of collective economic activity. Impatient with those content to sit back and wait for what they feel is sure to come, the author urges his supports to think and act positively to bring about a Socialized Europe. The emphasis is on practicality, not on abstract prophecy...