Word: oic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Representative Jennings and others who echoed him could have saved their breath. Whatever the merits of OIC or its Voice of America broadcasts to Europe, the point of order was unarguable-OIC had not been authorized by Congress. The State Department budget was approved without one penny for OIC...
Faulty Lisp. Congressman Mundt was not entirely satisfied himself with the OIC's Voice of America. But he was not willing to cut its throat because of a "faulty lisp or a foreign accent." Said he: "Let us rather guide it to make certain it develops the sturdy American twang...
State's Office of International Information and Cultural Affairs had asked for $31 million. It got nothing. Unless the Senate showed mercy and intervened, the much criticized Voice of America radio programs and other OIC projects were due to die. OIC had been given a thorough examination by Nebraska's hardheaded, hard-working Karl Stefan, chairman of a House appropriations subcommittee. He concluded that it was extravagantly operated, overstaffed with aliens, and-worst of all-pretty ineffective. Secretary Marshall disagreed. But to Karl Stefan, it seemed as if $31 million worth of food shipped to Europe would...
This summary wiping out of the activities of the Office of International Information and Cultural Affairs does in a way possess a curious internal logic. The action "saves" 31-million-odd dollars in OIC outlay; it pleases those congressional minds who feel that the existence of America is, as such, her own best propaganda; and it ends the life of the OIC, the successor of that OWI which so many Congressmen unflinchingly regard as communistic...
...completely free to press the propaganda activity which so recently ran many Congressmen's benzedrine bill sky-high and made them back the projected 400-million dollar "diplomatic offensive." The Committee's implied faith that the 27 nations hitherto reached by the broadcasts and booklets of the OIC will continue to believe in America's aims through a process of visceral induction is one that the Soviet propagandists will greet with bulging squeals of delight...