Word: neutral
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Speed. While Britain drowsed in the propagandist shadows last week, whipped to full speed was Dr. Goebbels' powerful Ministry of Propaganda and Public Enlightenment, which even in peacetime spends some $100,000,000 a year, employs 25,000. Twenty-four hours after German troops entered Poland, neutral newsmen had photographs of German troops on the march. Tanks, big guns, bombers, ruined villages, prisoners, wounded, mutilated bodies, charred houses, refugee children, smashed bridges, all added up to create an impression of overwhelming military strength, dramatized the speed of Germany's advance...
...Poles announced that the "holy city" of Czestochowa had been bombed, high-speed operators had photographs of Polish women and children worshipping at the shrine in the presence of a German soldier. This piece of propaganda hit three ways: defensively, it gave the lie to Polish charges; appealed to neutral opinion; was an attempt to convince Poles that Germans were really their friends who respected their relics...
...Northern Ireland was in, and only Eire, of the Empire's major members, was out. But Eire's neutrality was summed up by an official who released the crew of a British seaplane forced down in a remote harbor of Eire. Said he: "Sure, we're neutral, but who are we neutral against...
...Paris were considerably beyond the limit of radio's rules for mystery serials. Even in prizefight broadcasts a fighter may be cut, but he never bleeds, yet from Warsaw NBC had broadcast into U. S. parlors bashed brains, hacked-off hands, slaughtered children. Commentators, necessarily, were far from neutral. The European news reports broadcast were censored at the source, and amounted to little more than propaganda (even though the press printed no less censored news). In addition to all this, the cost had been terrific-as much as $18 a minute for transatlantic connections, countless refunds to advertisers whose...
...radio stations). CBS decided on at least two foreign hookups a day, interruptions of programs for big news only. NBC planned to use its men abroad on a newly announced schedule of war news periods only when they had something to say, began to scout around for correspondents in neutral European capitals, in the hope of getting uncensored news...