Word: oic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Throughout the Balkans, the combined impact of radio, press handouts and libraries have made OIC a real threat to the Russian propaganda monopoly-and once caused Marshal Tito to close the U.S. libraries in Belgrade. Italy hungers for Americana, despite the confusion it feels after reading Steinbeck, Hemingway, Dos Passes and Faulkner in the libraries, and then seeing Hollywood's idea of Americana on the screen. India's press has changed much of its hostile tone under State Department persuasion, and in Cairo a Russian press bulletin warned against the spread of the U.S. cultural offensive because...
...OIC's impact on the world was not yet enough to answer Congressional criticisms. Nevertheless, Bill Benton and State hoped that Congress would recall a forgotten warning by ex-Secretary of State Jimmy Byrnes...
...news of OIC's traveling shows...
Assistant Secretary of State William Benton, who is fighting hard to get Congress' approval of a $31 million appropriation for his Office of International Information and Cultural Affairs, had some news to report last week. A short-wave transmitter in Munich, which relays OIC broadcasts from the U.S. to Russia, had been sabotaged, causing the broadcasts to go to South America instead...