Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...greatly pleased with "The Propaganda Pilgrims" [TIME, Sept. 27]. I happen to be witness to the fact that in 1924 the Soviet border was completely closed and that no pilgrimage was allowed. A few years later (1928-30), the mosques were either torn down or used for different purposes. The clergy was liquidated or sent to Siberia; so 40 million Mohammedans in the Soviet Union were forced to do their worshiping secretly . . . During World War II, Russia pretended to show the free world that the Mohammedan behind the Iron Curtain had religious freedom. But this was utterly false according...
...anti-Soviet spy thriller, Iron Curtain. Last July he published a powerful novel, The Fall of a Titan, about Russian officialdom, and how one of its high-ups got cut down. Operation Manhunt, a sort of sequel to Iron Curtain, is still another piece of pretty effective anti-Communist propaganda inspired by eager Igor...
...global organization, it today resembles a giant coalition of the free world against the Soviet Union and its satellites. Wartime U.S. Soviet harmony has turned to dissonant conflict. Envisioned as an agency for collective security, the UN is now, at least in its political functions, little more than a propaganda forum where each side bids for the weight of world opinion. The free world now seeks, and should continue seek, its security through a whole series of regional organization such as NATO and ANZUS, each providing for the national interests of the states in its region more effectively than...
...some very real accomplishments to its credit. Through functional agencies, such as the World Health Organization and UNESCO, it has achieved a degree of international co-operation never before seen on such a scale in peacetime. And even as a propaganda forum, it has at least given clearer focus to the problems that divide the world...
...never agree to give up the veto. Yet, in a conference on Charter revision, neither power would want to be branded as obstructionist. If the United States, for example either voted against a review conference or refused to consider abolition of the veto, the USSR would have an effective propaganda weapon to flaunt before the world...