Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President grappled with the problem of the nation's debilitated military strength. The State Department moved on a new tangent into the mess of the Middle East. In collaboration with Britain and France, U.S. policymakers outsmarted Russia at Trieste. Meanwhile, some private citizens seized upon and wielded a propaganda weapon which might be as sharply effective as anything so far contrived in official quarters...
...preference for going to war to get what they wanted. Militarism is not one of the numerous moral spirochetes in the Communist mind. The Reds understand very clearly the importance of military power, but they prefer not to use it if they can reach their objectives by propaganda, conspiracy or blackmail. The Communists are not likely to unify the U.S. with a military Pearl Harbor...
Communist reaction was significant. In Prague, the speech was suppressed. In Moscow, the press gave it 18 lines on the day after its delivery. At Lake Success, Andrei Gromyko unwittingly made the funniest comment of an intensely serious week. The speech, he said, was "propaganda for internal American consumption...
...Caricature and Charivari were like so many knives hurled at his enemies, the Bona-partists and the bourgeoisie. Time has dulled their politics but not their bite. The French government's selection of them on view in Manhattan last week looked at first glance like enormously artful propaganda, but an onlooker circling the gallery could forget that they were propaganda, forget that they were art, and accept them as pictures of the real thing-life in Paris a century...
...Raven comes to the U.S. under a cloud that is mostly hot air. The picture was made with German financing during the occupation. Rumor said that it was so ruthless an exposure of French decadence that it was shown in Germany, as anti-French propaganda, under the title A Small French City. Actually, the film is neither more nor less anti-nationalist than the work of any intelligent, morally responsible artist, in time of peace or war. Propaganda or not, the picture was not shown in wartime Germany; indeed it was banned there (Germans, after all, might observe that...