Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Progressive party to mean compliance with the party line. In reply to a letter he has written, "I haven't received many letters like years from Oregon. Yours needs more like some that have come to me from Brooklyn. I think you have been reading too much communist propaganda that has appeared under the guise of the Progressive Party." In another letter Strand put "Communist organization apologists for the Soviet Union, officials of the Progressive Party, and many other fellow travellers" in the same category...
...through Potsdam, past the tall pine trees that shade the Soviet Headquarters. When I sat down in Heinz Depper's compartment, he was looking at a big Red banner strung across a main street. The sign said: "Vote 'Ja' for democracy." It was part of a propaganda campaign for the Communist People's Congress "elections" this week...
...Cosmopolitan magazine article on his fan mail, entitled Dear Sir-You Cur!: "I was surprised to learn that my correspondents were friendly in overwhelming majority . . ." he wrote. "The dissenters, being obviously in error, are more to be pitied than scorned. They dodge the issues; they are ignorant victims of propaganda, and their personal comments are intemperate and vulgar by contrast with the fine taste and faultless morality of my devotees...
...breed (e.g., Colonel Blimp), Guinea Pig has an earnest and sometimes moving integrity. Unfortunately, it also has more than its share of sentimentality and smugness, and not enough humor to keep it from sliding into a kind of fatuous self-congratulation. To many U.S. moviegoers, its class-conscious propaganda in favor of British traditions will sound, perhaps wrongly, like so much Martian gobbledygook...
Waiting for the Mob. In the first story, Young Man With A Future, a discharged army sergeant, a simple, decent young engineer, comes to Shanghai from Tokyo, where a buddy had already given him a discreet but troubling shot of Communist propaganda. In a rush of guilt, he concludes that the U.S. is on the wrong side, that the enemies of Chiang Kai-shek ("It is not so important whether we are Communists or not") are the hope of China. He flirts with the idea of helping them, but he is too confused to make up his mind. Even...