Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...argued by some that under this system, free journalists are lending themselves to the uses of calculated official propaganda, but that would be stretching journalistic Calvinism a bit too far. For the journalists, of all media, will watch what portions of film are released, and they will feel perfectly free to make news of the fact that other portions are held back when that seems a newsworthy point to make. On the whole, the experiment went well; there seems no real reason it cannot continue to. go well, and be of benefit, on balance, to both the President...
...gambling in the past, it was only because we wanted to give the newly born state of Viet Nam an indispensable complement of money in taxes for its budget . . . Now we conceive the urgent necessity of a complete disinfection of the regime from all defects . . . to defeat Communist propaganda." At week's end, Binh Xuyen's spectacular gambling casino, Le Grand Monde, which in the old days and under earlier management paid the Communists $3,000 a day for protection, closed its doors...
...builder and a fighter, Carl Ebert has performed thus far like the man who can carry Municipal safely through the melodic cold war with the Communists' State Opera. "I can't match them with quantity," he says intensely. "I don't have the East's propaganda money. But I will do it with quality. I can offer performances by a company that is good as a whole. It is a question of teamwork...
...weeks later Eisler was released and made his way to East Germany, where he was propaganda boss until he lost favor in 1952. He now heads an East German version of the Gallup poll...
Indeed, TASS, the Soviet news agency, has capitalized on the State Department's refusal to grant the visas, and the Communist-controlled International Union of Students has used the story to woo students from neutral nations into its organization. But the State Department can easily refute this propaganda by granting entrance visas to the Soviet editors. The well-chaperoned visitors surely could discover no defense secrets from student newspapers and student councils, and the trip would increase U.S. prestige...