Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...give (since the law does not prohibit giving) Communist Albania $850,000 worth of wheat flour, corn, dried beans and vegetable oil to see the population (1,246,000) through the annual late-winter-early-spring food crisis. The offer was promptly denounced in Moscow as a hypocritical propaganda maneuver, if Received, from Colorado's new Democratic Governor (and former U.S. Senator) Edwin C. Johnson, Colorado's 1955 nonresident fishing license...
...characteristics of the new [Russian] regime is the jettisoning of the suave manner of the Malenkov period. Now the Russians are back at the familiar task of making simple propaganda for simple minds out of the whole disarmament question. It should now be clear for all to see that in Soviet eyes questions such as West German rearmament are secondary to the central aim of driving the Americans out of the whole Eurasian continent...
Since the purpose given for the restriction is to keep "Communist propaganda" out of the country, extra customs translators have been placed at the big cities to examine the publications for "propaganda." But it has been admitted by postal authorities that, in effect, only these above mentioned "authorized" people can receive the Communist mail...
Shulman believed the idea of not letting the "propaganda" circulate, was basically wrong. "If you looked at the material involved, you would see that the danger of its subverting the American people is very small, whereas the value of the information it contains is very great...
...censor or confiscate Russian publications does in itself sufficiently resemble Soviet thought-control practices. But worse that that, under the existing legislation there is apparently nothing to prevent the Post Office, with the Attorney General's permission, from widening the censorship list to include socialist literature or just unpatriotic propaganda originating abroad. Universities also are exposed to the whims of Washington bureaucrats, because at the present time it is only through the permission of the Post Office that these institutions can receive Russian literature for research purposes...