Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soviet propaganda would have Americans believe-and some do-that the U.S. has not a friend or worthwhile ally in all the world. Actually, the U.S. now has more friends abroad than any great nation has a right to expect, and more allies than any power has ever rallied in time of peace. Last week the U.S. welded together one recently assembled alliance at the eight-nation Southeast Asia Treaty Organization conference in Bangkok. This week the U.S. welcomed a great new ally: Western Germany, which by the historic Bundestag vote at Bonn formally ratified its allegiance to the Atlantic...
...Defended U.S. Information Service libraries abroad as the "backbone of our propaganda program," said the attacks they suffered in 1953 from McCarthy Investigators Roy M. Cohn and G. David Schine were "undeserved...
...United States Post Office confessed last week that for three years now it has confiscated all Russian propaganda to "unauthorized" persons in this country. This legal basis for this action, the Post Office said, is a 1940 ruling by the Attorney general under a Congressional act that limits the receipt of foreign political propaganda to diplomatic or registered agents. Sound as the Post Office's legal position may be, its reason for censorship-that Russian propaganda can be damaging within the United states-is far from convincing...
...Post Office's action. Indeed, such people can only view the Government's censorship at tending to confirm the soviet charge that the United states is a police state. To assume on the other hand, that a loyal citizen would be susceptible to a few pieces of Communist propaganda shows an amazing lack of confidence in both the stability of American institutions and the judgement of the average citizen...
...crates contained new bicycles, radios and sewing machines-presented to the departing repatriates by the Communists and carried into Greece as effective propaganda material. Some of the shiny merchandise had already been sold for food...