Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...French were more impressed with Ike's plan as propaganda than as practicality, they had far less patience with Eden's notion of practicality. They pointed out sharply that the last experiment in demilitarized zones was the Rhineland; when Hitler marched back in, neither Britain nor France mustered the courage to oppose him. The French wanted no such tempting vacuums in the center of Europe...
...York Times's WASHINGTON BUREAU CHIEF JAMES RESTON PRESIDENT Eisenhower joined the propaganda parade with a vengeance. He produced the only new dramatic proposal of the week, the surprise of the conference for a variety of reasons. In the first place, it was generally regarded as unrealistic. Second, it is illegal under U.S. laws. Third, it seemed to other Western delegates to be a proposal which had no chance of being accepted. Fourth -and this was the greatest surprise of all-the idea apparently was not explored in any detail, if at all, with Congressional leaders, who make...
...information they most need if they are to knock us out with a surprise attack. This plan was put forward not to be accepted but to be rejected. By this means we are to prove to the world the insincerity of Russian pretensions and thus gain a great propaganda advantage. That is, we are to prove Russian insincerity by demonstrating our own insincerity. The Geneva Conference did give us a wonderful opportunity to prove our own good intentions and to expose soviet duplicity, but this opportunity was missed...
Hiroshima. A propaganda-heavy but harrowing Japanese-made film about the atomic destruction of a living city (TIME...
AMERICAN management would be well advised, if only for the sake of America's reputation abroad, to distinguish more clearly in its propaganda between "capitalism" on the one hand and the present-day American economic system on the other. "Capitalism" has a bad reputation in Europe and Asia, deservedly so in many cases. Consequently, to advertise and to glorify our own economic system as "capitalism," without at the same time making a lot of distinctions and sub-distinctions, is, again, to play into the hands of the enemy. The American system has a number of weaknesses and imperfections...