Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have to agree to an Adenauer formula, i.e., resuming normal diplomatic relations without gaining any major concessions. Premier Hatoyama is so confident of some sort of settlement that he has already set in motion a merging of government security agencies in expectation of an upsurge in Soviet propaganda and espionage when the Russians return to Tokyo in force...
Died. Louis Raemaekers, 87, famed Dutch cartoonist whose savage World War I propaganda drawings for Amsterdam's De Telegraaf inflamed Allied emotions and endangered Holland's neutrality; in Scheveningen, The Netherlands. Bearded, mild-mannered Artist Raemaekers maintained his hatred of Germans through the years of uneasy peace, fled to the U.S. ahead of the Nazi invaders in 1940 to draw war cartoons briefly for New York City's tabloid PM. Half-German himself, Louis Raemaekers said in 1917: "It would be better ... if all the Germans could be wiped off the face of the earth...
...Roman Catholic Church in Berlin has published statistics showing that Communist antireligious propaganda is paying off in Germany's East zone. Candidates for the priesthood number only 33%-about half the normal expectation. Church membership "leakage" increased from 3,733 in 1948 to almost 10,000 last year...
...only independent among the nation's four English-language dailies. The Japan Times before the war had powerful backing from the Mitsubishi and Mitsui trusts and government-linked financial houses. During the war, the Times was subsidized by the Japanese Foreign Office, which used the paper as a propaganda medium...
...sits out an enlisted men's "mutiny" (they want 14 bottles of beer once a week, rather than two a day) and a correspondent's revolt (he wants his sheets changed every day), but almost founders under the first news of the atomic bomb ("That Air Force propaganda mill is really something to keep up with...