Word: pamphleteers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While Iraq's young Regent Abdul Illah (whose approval is necessary for the death sentences) considered whether or not Communism can be stopped by hanging its leaders, Iraqi Communists showed signs that they were still very much alive. Their secret presses, silent during the trial, got out a pamphlet protesting an "action which Hitler dared not take, and only the Franco regime can equal...
When the Hudson Bay Company's supply ship Nascopie sailed from Montreal this week on her annual 11,000-mile voyage through the Arctic, she carried, along with 34 passengers and a cargo of necessities for northland Mountie posts, 1,200 copies of a 28-page pamphlet entitled The Book of Wisdom for Eskimo. In Eskimo-land, a copy of the pamphlet will be given to every family within reach...
...League pamphlets slash viciously at the Zionists. One shows a Jewish boy on his knees saying "I want to live." That, says the pamphlet, is "the submissive Jewish Agency way." On another page stands a youth with a Tommy gun: "The fighting Hebrew resistance way!" Hecht on official Zionists: "They gabble . . . they want a sanctuary where the Jews of Europe can all stand on a rock and eat philanthropy-fish till the Messiah arrives. . . . Jewish wealth and respectability are fearlessly rushing sandwiches...
Speaking Labor's language had become an approved major tenet of Tory doctrine. The Conservatives had a new statement of party policy to talk about. Their platform was a pamphlet called The Industrial Charter. It was 38 close-printed pages, some major sections of which closely resembled some of the political philosophies expounded in Keep Left, the recent pamphlet of Richard Crossman, ambitious leader of Labor radicals in the House of Commons...
...line Conservatives such stuff was dyed deeper than pink. But the Tory progressives had strong men in their camp. Able Richard Austen Butler, as chairman of the pamphlet-writing group, not only pulled together the suggestions of Eccles and others, but sold The Industrial Charter to Winston Churchill and the Tory "shadow cabinet." It was Butler who expounded the pamphlet's thesis at press conferences. Observers said Butler was the man who deserved most credit for the organizational side of the Tory revival...