Word: pamphlet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Toni Sender's grim bill of particulars stung the Russians hard. Cried Delegate Tsarapkin: "Filthy libel ... a dirty pamphlet supplied the State Department by a lackey union." When Miss Sender suggested that, to determine who was a liar, a survey be made of forced labor in all the United Nations, the Russian snapped: "Traveling in the Soviet Union is forbidden to haters of the U.S.S.R...
...school. He kept four cows and distributed milk to the undernourished children. He spent much time visiting the sick and the jailed. Soon he became a prisoner himself. When Bela Kun established his four months' Communist reign of terror in 1919, Father Pehm attacked him in a pamphlet. The Communists led him through the town's streets "in shame," then imprisoned him in the county courthouse...
...What does this picture mean?" asked the electioneering pamphlet coyly. And under a photograph of a curly-topped baby glowing with health. Britain's Labor Party gave the answer: "The prams of Britain are filled with the bonniest babies in living memory. Britain today gives mothers and babies a better chance of good health than any other country...
...Southwark sent clerks from Conservative headquarters scurrying to check. In no time their faces were wreathed in happy smiles. Soon afterward faces at Transport House, where Labor holds forth, turned a dull brick red. "I deeply regret the mistake," stammered Party Secretary Morgan Phillips as he withdrew the boomeranging pamphlet amid general guffaws. "The photograph was selected from a collection of 13 supplied by a picture library in response to a request for suitable postwar babies...
...margarine Communist. In a pamphlet entitled "The New Democracy" (1940), Mao carefully explained how he intends to rule China. The pamphlet is a clear statement of the "soft" line which the Reds use in a "given historic phase,". i.e., until they are strong enough to use brass knuckles. China, says Mao, is still largely a "feudal" country. Before it can have its Communist revolution against the bourgeoisie, the bourgeoisie must first have its revolution against "feudalism." These two separate steps (which occurred centuries apart in Europe) can, in China, be blended into a continuous process. But the first step...