Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Obviously the Russians wanted propaganda fodder from the visit. We have give them plenty--first, a year's wait for permission to enter the country; then, the carefully-selected itinerary which read like a page from an Intra-Tourist manual; and now, the business of fingerprints. This last blunder is inexcusable...
Despite its faults, The Drum is never dull. Always alive with some new piece of skullduggery, the picture moves quickly through that simpler age when Knives and rifles, not jet planes and propaganda leaflets, decided who would control Asia...
...propaganda success of Brazil's outlawed Communist Party was the slogan O Petróleo é Nosso (The Oil Is Ours). Under that Communist-devised battlecry, Brazilian nationalists have blocked any foreign participation in the development of the nation's oil. A product of the-oil-is-ours nationalism was Brazil's 1953 law, which set up an oil monopoly, Petrobrás, and forbade ownership of shares by foreigners-or even Brazilians married to foreigners...
...During a propaganda meeting in Hungary, one listener kept shaking his head during the speaker's explanation of Communist successes in supplying more goods at lower prices. "Why are you shaking your head like that?"demanded the speaker. "Well," said the listener, "I was around to all the markets today and goods were scarcer and prices higher than ever." "That is a serious error, Comrade," said the speaker. "You should try to go to the market less and read the newspaper more." ¶I In Bulgaria, they quip that the Communists have raised the standard of living so high...
First Line of Defense. In St. Paul, legislators first defeated, later passed (77 to 44) a bill legalizing the sale of vodka, despite Representative F. Gordon Wright's warning that "the bill is nothing but Communist propaganda . . . Pravda [will] tell all the people behind the Iron Curtain that we have taken a liking to their national drink...