Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Change of Atmosphere. Even so, the atmosphere in Europe has changed. The conviction is widespread that the danger of world war has receded. This European feeling comes not so much from the propaganda of coexistence but from a number of other assumptions: that the Russian leaders are in no mood to start a world war; that the capacity to destroy New York and Detroit is not good enough if it results in the destruction of Moscow and Leningrad; that the Russian junta is not sufficiently in control of its own people, or secure enough from its own rivalries, to trigger...
...Russian propaganda machine, slogging away in all directions, finally hit a snag in India, where it has been trying to be winning. The Indian government took a delayed look at the latest edition of the Big Soviet Encyclopedia and turned to the name Mohandas K. Gandhi. "Author of the reactionary teachings of Gandhism," it read. "Hailing from the Banya caste, which engaged in trade and usury . . . actively helped British imperialism . . . betrayed the people and helped the imperialists against the people . . . aped the ascetics . . . pretended, in a demagogic way, to be a supporter of Indian independence and an enemy...
...week's end some of India's usually neutralist newspapers were drawing an editorial conclusion they would have damned as U.S. propaganda not seven days before. "There is no prospect," said the Hindustan Times, "of India, Burma and Indonesia wanting to swing over to China." And the influential Times of India seemed to be writing an epitaph over Nehru's dream of a protected Area of Peace when it acknowledged that "it would be something unusual for Communist China to reject the traditional Communist pattern of expansion...
...which regulates all that floats through central and southern Europe, relaxed its stranglehold on Yugoslav commerce. On the anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution last November, Tito cabled Moscow his best wishes, got back Moscow's thanks. Last month the "Free Yugoslav" radio, which has been beaming anti-Tito propaganda into Yugoslavia from behind the Iron Curtain, stopped broadcasting. Early this month, the Russians and Yugoslavs signed a barter trade treaty...
Already scheduled for intercollegiate competition, a number of schools are now refusing to debate the national topic that suggests recognition of Communist China. The colleges excuse themselves by claiming that arguments for China are no more than Soviet Party propaganda. And Educators in three mid-western schools have agreed that discussion of the topic might pollute the students' American minds...