Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President toured the Middle West. Politicos and columnists seemed puzzled by the phenomenon. But the President himself, with a peculiar combination of frankness and naiveté, offered a plausible explanation. Said he in a speech at Batavia, N.Y.: "I think they want to find out whether all this propaganda that has been put out-about the President not being able to do his job-is true...
Andrei Vishinsky likes to tell the world that U.S. capitalists are warmongers. A large contingent of clerks in Moscow is kept busy plowing through U.S. publications to supply Vishinsky and other Soviet statesmen with evidence in support of that charge. The other day, Vishinsky fell for his own propaganda...
...provocatively, The Map of the Third World War.' That is what they are publishing in the U.S. . . . They are handing them out to motorists. This map, with provocatively militant appeals, carries the heading: 'Pacific Theater of Military Operations.' The map is an example of malicious war propaganda against the Soviet Union and the new democracies of Eastern Europe...
...hopefully shooting arrows into the empty air, the wartime "Voice of America" beamed 2,500 broadcasts a week into the heart of Europe and Asia. Nobody knew, or could prove, whether it did any good or not. But the idea was to encourage resistance forces and combat Axis propaganda. When the war ended, the "Voice" died to a whisper. It was cut down by a budget-minded Congress to a scanty $8,000,000 a year (less than the U.S. spent last year on its wildlife care), and most of its overseas programs were farmed out to private networks...
Last week the Voice, finally on its own, was concentrating on a new job very much like its wartime duty: trying to encourage anti-Communist resistance forces and combat Soviet propaganda. Getting started again had taken time. Because of strict loyalty checks, the Voice had spent six months clearing its new employees with the FBI. Because it cannot buy service from the Associated Press or the United Press, the Voice sometimes gets scooped by foreign newspapers as well as by the Soviet radio...