Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reported that 1,158 refugees went back to their Red homelands in the 13 months ending Jan. 31, 1956. During the same period about 6,000 non-German Europeans fled Communism by slipping through the Iron Curtain to the West. Among the reasons for redefection, according to IRC: Communist propaganda appeals and threats of reprisal against the refugees' families; the refugees' own nostalgia for their homelands, and failure to make a living in the West. Concluded General William Donovan, wartime chief of the Office of Strategic Service and head of the Emergency Commission: "Each return is not only...
...part, the Government possibly stood to collect a relatively insignificant sum in back taxes and penalties and some considerably more significant information about the party's inner workings. For theirs, the Communists immediately gained some impulsive sympathy and an important propaganda advantage...
Moysey charged that the Communist Party owed $389,265 in back taxes, penalties and interest for 1951, and that its propaganda sheet, the Daily Worker, owed another $46,049 for 1951-53 (see PRESS). He filed liens against the party's assets in New York, where Communist national headquarters are located, and asked district directors to do the same in their cities...
Upon State Department urging that "distorted or sensational reporting of these hearings might reflect unfavorably on a large American company . . . and might easily be used by the Communists for propaganda purposes to damage the prestige of the United States," the hearings were secret; only Judge Barnes's testimony was made public. But other testimony leaked out. In it, jobbers gloomed that they are under the thumb of Fruit Dispatch. United Fruit's sales subsidiary. "There is no escape from
...would appear that the only result of any common effort for peace on the part of American and Russian churches would be to put the American churches in the position of being used by the Soviet Union for its political policy and propaganda, only to be dropped at any moment when they would be no longer useful...