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...Everywhere I heard from the native population the reiterated hope that the Americans would occupy the rest of Austria. The streets were full of homeless people, homeless because they'd rather live as refugees than as subjects of the Russians. When pressed for details, none had anything but hearsay evidence to offer in support of their fears. It made me wonder how much of their fear was justified in fact and how much was the fruit of an assiduously pursued propaganda program engineered by Goebbels. I pass the idea along as worthy of consideration because in your...
...liberates? The one thing to be sure of is that the occupying armies, wherever they are, are examples of systems they represent. . . . The G.I., in short, . . . plays a revolutionary role. . . . The idea of freedom continues to exert an irresistible attraction even for those who know it only by hearsay. If there is any reason why democracy does not win in competition with other systems, it is because democrats do not bid for the enormous majorities yearning to follow them...
...Republican Senator Owen Brewster, speaking from hearsay after a tour of western Europe, said that Germany's professional and bourgeois crust was being liquidated in the Russian zone...
...Aranha and deposed Air Chief Eduardo Gomes, were headlined. Brazilians bought early editions by the handful, read them goggle-eyed. Gasped one: "I can't stand it! There's too much oxygen!" Said Diario Carioca: "The youngest of us never even knew of such freedom except by hearsay or reading foreign news. It was like waking suddenly from a long dream, like waking and opening our eyes to the light...
...birthright to be a competent press, produced by competent men. The press neither does its duty nor fulfills its destiny if it poisons its news columns with propaganda and private opinions; or is careless of its facts; or presents editorials written by the uninformed and swayed by hearsay; or publishes misleading advertising or vicious and sensational gossip from whatever source...