Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Their stories were almost identical. Maine-born Mildred Elizabeth Gillars, 47, went to Europe in 1929 to study music. When war came she stayed on in Berlin, broadcasting a mixture of sirupy music and defeatist propaganda to U.S. troops. Los Angeles-born Iva Toguri d'Aquino, 32, went to Japan in 1941 "to see a sick aunt," was caught there by Pearl Harbor. Along with half a dozen English-speaking Japanese girls, she became the corporate voice which Pacific troops nicknamed Tokyo Rose. Just before war's end, she married a Portuguese newsman...
Vishinsky banged the table. "It isn't fair!" he blustered. "He must have prepared this statement for just such an opportunity!" As a matter of fact, Cooke had done just that. His speech was one of the rare examples of Western preparation for a propaganda battle...
...ripe old age of 184, the Hartford Courant is still hale, hearty (circ. 61,000) and articulate. Its readers speak up, too. In a single letters-to-the-editor column last week they hurled such epithets at the editorials across the page as "boorish," "intolerant," "jaundiced," "smug," "partisan propaganda," and "poorly written." The editors hardly winced; as long as they were getting back talk, they knew that their stuff was being read...
Like the Big Three of Mexico's revolutionary art (Rivera, Orozco, Siqueiros), David thought painting should "contribute forcefully to the education of the public." The French Revolution and its aftermath gave him a chance to paint propaganda pictures for a vast new public, and a brand-new set of heroes and martyrs to portray. David sat in the National Convention, voted for Louis XVI's death, and eventually went into exile because of it, but not until he had tasted glory with Napoleon. Marat, Robespierre and Napoleon might seem a mixed and dubious cast to admire; to David...
History students will study the methods of the historians from Thucydides to Tawney and Toynbee. Then they will study the raw material that a modern historian might have to use-statistics, opinion polls, propaganda, debates on the floor of Congress-to see what they can make of them...