Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been warning citizens that fluoridation of public water supplies is a Russian plot. The petition being circulated by the Ten Million in effect echoes McCarthy's Communist-handmaiden charge against the Watkins committee. It says: "We point out that the Communists and their un-American cohorts, by vicious propaganda, and through willing stooges and blind but innocent dupes, already have victimized certain members of the U.S. Senate. The insidious influence of these enemies of our way of life was mainly responsible for the creation of the Watkins committee, and for its incredible findings and conclusions...
...should not be allowed to "spend half their time arguing the Communist side." The commanding officers of Annapolis and West Point apparently agreed. To argue the affirmative, said the Navy, would make the Academy's young men "liable to misrepresentation, as well as providing the Reds a tremendous propaganda device." At Duke University, one debater reported that he had received a letter from his Congressman. "I certainly hope," warned Representative Edward Robeson, "that you will not undertake to debate the positive position of this subject, as quotations from your statements may embarrass you for the rest of your life...
...Princeton he works with a man, J. Robert Oppenheimer, who was recently elected to a new term as head of the institute despite the fact that the U.S. Government reluctantly removed his clearance to classified atomic energy documents. In his statement last week (which was promptly used for Communist propaganda), Scientist Einstein, who may know more about the universe than any other human being, showed that he knows less about the meaning and responsibilities of freedom...
...manner permit any insults to the feelings of believers and clergy or any official interference in the activity of the church." Khrushchev had his own Marxist reason. "Insulting attacks . . . can only lead to strengthening and even intensification of religious prejudices among the people . . . Patient, well-organized, scientific atheistic propaganda among the believers will help them finally free themselves...
From a political standpoint, such a move is unnecessary. The Russians could never push Communist leaf-lets through UNESCO presses. The West has an over-whelming majority in the group, and even with the most rigid discipline, Communist delegates could not control policy. Nor need the West counter any propaganda seeping in from Moscow. Working in the cultural field, UNESCO offers little opportunity for the sensationalism which marks General Assembly debates. Partisan speeches on non-political subjects have held little interest for the global audience...