Word: pamphleteers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eagle. In its broad aspects the Yugoslav disunity can be traced to failure of the United Nations to supply a dynamic post-war policy. To Author Louis Adamic, speaking for the land of his birth, Yugoslavia today is a testing ground for all of post-war Europe. In a pamphlet amplifying a recent article in the Saturday Evening Post, Idealist Adamic spoke up with all the burning eloquence of a man whose mother and nine brothers and sisters are still somewhere in Yugoslavia...
...help its canteen workers understand American patrons, Britain's Navy, Army & Air Force Institutes issued a pamphlet. Interesting by-product was the information it gave U.S. soldiers about what the British think of them after nearly a year in the United Kingdom. Samples: >"Americans are men's men. The American troops are tough, but with a toughness tempered by a strong sense of humor. They think the British nation pretty tough, too, after the way we have stood up to bombings." >"You may think they are inclined to make too much of the skyscrapers of New York...
What Haushofer had to say to Hitler was partly based on a short pamphlet (The Geographical Pivot of History) written in 1904 by British Geographer Sir Halford Mackinder (who expanded it in 1919 into the now reissued Democratic Ideals and Reality). Like Haushofer, Mackinder knew the significance of that stony string of sea bases that joined England to her colonies and dominions. What, he asked, could menace them and the sea power which upheld them? Answer: the possession of a body of land so vast and rich that sea power could never encircle it effectively. Mackinder saw such a body...
Remembrance in France. From London came news of a short story, called The Flame, that had been distributed through France in an Office of War Information pamphlet. It told how the Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Navy, traveling through France in 1918, had come upon an elderly priest knocked down by a Navy pilot car. The priest refused personal compensation; instead the Assistant Secretary wrote out a Navy requisition for $200 to pay for releading the windows of the priest's "very lovely old church...
Take That. At the University of California, the mailing room of the university's publishing house was reconditioned to discourage termites. The termites retaliated by attacking literature stacked there, including a pamphlet entitled: The Control of Termites by the College of Agriculture...