Word: opinionated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Today America wishes to remain neutral. Tomorrow she may not. Today America has a holy resolve to stay out of war--a resolve such as she never had in 1916. It is born of twenty-five years of clever peaceways advertising; it is born of the opinion that these United States were badly used in the last war, of the feeling that European quarrels can and should remain...
...only public opinion in favor of war will take us in. The bankers, the dealers in death are secondary. Even the incidents on the high seas and the insults to national honor are secondary. Furthermore, these factors will be under more effective controls than they were in 1917. For there to be war there must be high-charged hysteria and the blind desire to fight. Without these we remain neutral...
...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...
Profitably for Artist Nichols, the U. S. public backed his critics' opinion by buying 48,000 postcard reproductions of his paintings...
...Director General Eric Drummond Lord Perth (who later in the week became Advisor on Foreign Publicity and was succeeded by Sir Findlater Stewart) and his Chief Censor. Admiral Cecil Vivian Usborne, heard them patiently, anxious to satisfy the men on whose work depends the U. S. public's opinion of Britain's war. They agreed to appoint more censors, keep them on duty 24 hours a day. Another proposal-that radio broadcasts be delayed until newsmen had time to file their stories-was held over for consideration...