Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...activities by the upcoming presidential campaign; that a united U.S. people are just as determined as ever to oppose Soviet aggression and the spread of Communist ideas; and that if Moscow is beginning to think anything else, it is listening too hard to Henry Wallace-and swallowing its own propaganda...
...thousand right-thinkers-Wallaceites, Communists, fellow travelers and troubled innocents-clumped determinedly two blocks east to the huge Roxy Theater. They lugged picket signs and clutched bundles of leaflets, which had been prepared in advance. They were out to boo the opening of The Iron Curtain, the anti-Soviet propaganda story* of Russian atom spies in Canada. (TIME...
...statement which they signed demanded that the film be withdrawn as "a violation of the United Nations declaration against war propaganda and as a grave threat to our won security...
...movie, "The Iron Curtain," is now being shown in Boston and simultaneously in 400 other theaters across the country something of a record even for Hollywood in the wide-spread dissemination of propaganda. For the film is clearly just that. It is propaganda against a country with which we are now not at war. It is blatant war propaganda. It is the first step in the psychological softening...
There are, of course, conflicting views on "The Iron Curtain." The New York Roxy is now being picketed by the (Wallace) Committee Against War Propaganda. And those pickets, in turn, are being counter-picketed by the Catholic War Veterans. A petition of protest against the film has been signed by 297 leading Protestant clergy over the country, including five bishops. On the opening night, there was a near-riot beneath the Roxy marquee, involving reported 2,000 persons. Mr. Spyros P. Skouras, of 20th Century Fox, said "those who banded together last night to boycott the film are attacking...