Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...think that the theme of the Festival, "Peace and Friendship," is not an alien one to American young people, and through my experience there I found that this was not a propaganda device but simply an expression of friendship of youth from all over the world...
...Japan. It is spending $100 for every $1 the Soviets put up and $10 for every $1 the Soviets promise. It is directing a diplomatic offensive. But on the psychological front the United States is on the defensive. Washington spends its time reacting to Soviet actions and Soviet propaganda, while the Soviets are busy turning up new schemes to embarrass the West. Moscow is waging psychological warfare day and night in Europe, Asia, Africa, bluntly, blatantly, busily...
...South: I" in the Dec. 1 issue of the CRIMSON, we agree that his article sounded "one-sided" in the extreme. We can agree with Mr. Halberstam's view that the NAACP denouncement of the treatment of Negroes in the South generally and in Mississippi particularly is propaganda. (Webster's Collegiate Dictionary defines propaganda as, "Any organized or concerted group, effort, or movement to spread particular doctrines, information, etc.") But it does not follow that, as Mr. Halberstam's article implies, propaganda as such is a falsehood or is destructive. And we do not believe that the NAAP's propaganda...
...believe, with this purpose in mind that the NAACP has conducted what Mr. Halberstam calls its propaganda campaign against the South. Further- more, we are certain that the NAACP, as do most thinking Americans, sympathizes with what Mr. Halberstam calls "the South's problems." But this does not mean that it must acquiesce in, and remain silent about, the South's hesitancy--and in some places (e.g., Mississippi refusal--to do something about its problems. Such would be tantamount to a denial of the very democratic principles upon which this country was founded...
...tried to make the Taft-Hartley Act a major issue. The attempt failed miserably; Bob Taft, the Act's sponsor, won by thumping pluralities--even in districts where a large proportion of the voters belonged to unions--and in spite of the CIO's mobilization of huge financial and propaganda resources behind Democrat "Jumpin' Joe" Ferguson...