Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When President Eisenhower and Premier Bulganin smilingly shook hands at the summit parley last July, the Soviets got a propaganda windfall. Pictures of the occasion were blown up to enormous size and placarded throughout Eastern Europe as "proof" that the U.S. had made friends with the Soviet Union and no longer had any interest in setting the satellites free. Last week, when newsmen sought another smiling picture, this time of Vyacheslav Molotov chumming up with John Foster Dulles, the Secretary of State said no. It was a challenge that no photographer could or would ignore...
Your Oct. 17 Saar article presents a distorted viewpoint and serves only as anti-German propaganda. Has it ever occurred to your reporter why the Saarlanders have so recently started to demonstrate? Since the close of World War II, the Saar has been a police state. Any attempt on the part of the Saarlanders towards self-determination was rigorously suppressed...
...Russians a greater victory than they have yet won. A single U.S. construction firm, Morrison-Knudsen, has put up more projects in southern Afghanistan than all the flashy grain elevators and oil tanks put up by the Russians in Kabul. The Russians have a talent for getting more propaganda value out of their shadows than the U.S. does out' of its substance...
...year official and quasi-official groups in West Germany have intensified their talk about reunification with the Soviet sector. Spearheading this drive is the Bonn government's official Ministry for All German Affairs, which, in addition to co-ordinating the activities of other groups, carries on a fairly extensive propaganda campaign itself. Perhaps the next most active organization is the one responsible for the Augsburg poster and many similar ones all over Germany: "Germany Indivisible--the People's Movement for Reunification." Formed last year by some of the country's leading political figures, the group stepped up its activity this...
Replacing both the antagonistic propaganda of the Cold War and the Chimerical hopes of July in Geneva, the new Administration attitude should admit that agreement on the major issues of Germany and disarmament still lies far in the future. The United States, while continuing to negotiate on these questions, should focus the world's attention on the steps toward peace that definitely can be taken at this time--the expansion of East-West contacts, for example. Progress in this field, if continued long enough, may eventually transform the Spirit of Geneva into a world-wide spirit that will make Geneva...