Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hazy but Hopeful. Confronted with these limited proposals, the U.S.S.R. could not sit idle without suffering a considerable propaganda defeat. The day after Stassen made his call for an exchange of troop movement data. Soviet Delegate Andrei Gromyko unveiled a brand-new Soviet disarmament plan. Its main features...
...first time too the U.S.S.R. had given some indications, hazy though they were, of the kind of international controls it would accept. Perhaps most important of all, however, was the new tone adopted by the Soviets. Said a U.S. official: "Our preliminary reaction is that this is not propaganda but a solid proposal aimed at solving the problem before...
...Nasser's chief instrument of propaganda is the Voice of the Arabs. On four wave lengths, the Voice pours out a stream of stirring Arab songs, inflammatory news summaries and incendiary comment with the hypnotic insistence of a kind of political muezzin. It alleges "imperialist" plots, fictitious massacres, Zionist "conspiracies." It recommends riots in Jordan, rebellion in Morocco, revenge in Algeria. Blaring from loudspeakers in cafes and hovels throughout the Middle East, it is for a vast number of illiterate Arabs the only news they get. By relay stations up the Nile, it also aims at all Africa, beaming...
...Glubb, "is being driven from the Middle East by words-words to which, with British impassivity, she refuses to reply . . . The same bitter diatribes and violent slogans are poured out [by the Egyptian radio] day after day, hour after hour, and there is no reply, no response, no counter-propaganda. When a foreign radio said that British troops were bayoneting babies, English people merely laughed and said, 'How ridiculous.' But millions of [Arab] listeners believed it... In the Middle East today, the wireless set and the printing press are waging a relentless and merciless...
...bitter cold to visit the city's historic spots. They were even invited to Tallin, the capital of Estonia, which has been barred to foreigners since World War II. On a trip to the 14th century Trinity Monastery at Zagorsk, the Americans were startled by their hosts' propaganda measures: throughout the 45-mile drive, an open ZIS limousine sped along before their motorcade crammed with Soviet cameramen taking pictures. Inside the monastery batteries of klieg lights ensured that the photographers would not miss a detail. The conferences had hardly got under way, when it seemed that they might...