Word: humanit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...course not "warmongering," in Moscow's eyes. Only "capitalist imperialist gangsters" could be warmongers, and they, it seemed, stretched their claws everywhere. Russia's Andrei Zhdanov had called for ideological as well as political resistance to the U.S. Last week the French Communist paper L'Humanité took it from there. Introducing a special anti-American cultural section to run Wednesdays and Fridays, L'Humanité cried: "America degrades the spirit." It got down to cases...
Somewhat breathless after a half-page assault on U.S. civilization in general ("racism, gangsterism, alcoholism . . . prostitution disguised as law"), L'Humanité begged readers to send in suggestions for future treatment...
...Superman of Nietzsche." But L'Humanité could not wait for the following Wednesday. Twenty-four hours later the women's page screamed: "Mothers, beware of American illustrated papers . . . these drawings, these comics." Hearst comics were the worst, but all were...
...Humanité's solution: "A law for the material and moral protection of our child's press." To twist home the point, the editors ran a two-column cut of a handsome, curly-haired boy doing his homework under lamplight. No comics were in sight, but the caption read: "Is this studious little boy to be the prey of Yankee journalism, the murderer of youthful minds...
...Terre cynically exploits the Communist farm line as against the city line laid down by L'Humanité of Paris. For example, L'Humanité said on Sept. 25: "In April, the Communists were in the Government, and butter cost 255 .francs a pound. Today the Communists are no longer in the Government, and butter costs 370 francs a pound. Now do you understand why you are hungry...