Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Army, long bubbling with discontent, had boiled over with scalding anti-Air Force documents slipped to friendly reporters (TIME, May 28). The Air Force struck back with its own propaganda bombs, and some of them indiscriminately clobbered the Navy as well as the Army. Back from Hot Springs, a few days too late, Charlie Wilson labored mightily to bring peace to the Pentagon, but by this week the battle had qualities of nightmare. On one occasion, for example, Air Force officers disguised themselves in their old Army uniforms and strolled innocently through the Pentagon's Army sections...
...young Communists were being pressured to "Go East." In the public press, special inducements (tax exemptions, individual grants, free grain and flour, and bank credits of $2,500 for the building of houses and barns) were offered to peasants and workers to stake their future in the Eastern regions. Propaganda painted the effort as a "Great Adventure," the prospect as the opening of a "New Frontier." Trainloads of Russian hopefuls trekking eastward this year began what promised to be one of the great population migrations of recent times...
...Versailles Conference, where Dulles was a junior member of the U.S. delegation and Koo headed the Chinese delegation, went a warm letter. Koo's replacement: Hollington K. Tong, 69, member of the first class graduated by Columbia University's School of Journalism, China's propaganda minister in World War II, Nationalist China's Ambassador to Japan since 1952, good friend of the U.S. and of Chiang Kaishek...
...Russians gained a big propaganda advantage in disarmament...
...reaction to Soviet offers to confer, the U.S. answers with despairing pessimism instead of cautious optimism. When Russia announced her arms cut, Secretary Dulles, a man of few and ill-chosen words, responded that "the obvious explanation" is as a propaganda tactic and a shift of manpower to industry and agriculture. This all may be true enough, but the Secretary's hasty appraisal is not the way to counter the Soviet gambit. Countries keeping an appraising eye on the two world foes see perpetual Russian smiles and perpetual American frowns. They are presented by the Kremlin with a fait accompli...