Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russia had no interest in such a bargain. Instead, he brazenly announced that Moscow would "grant" the Western powers one more year of occupation rights in Berlin-provided they would reduce their forces in West Berlin to "symbolic" levels (about 50 from each nation), would liquidate all anti-Communist propaganda and espionage organizations in the city, and would agree, when the year was up, to accept an all-German committee (equal membership on both sides) to talk about "reunification." In a final burst of arrogance, Gromyko added that unless the West accepted these conditions, "the Soviet Union will...
...week's end Western spokesmen said that the conference was on a "day-to-day basis," might break up any time unless Gromyko offered some sign of being ready to negotiate. But the fact seemed to be that Herter & Co. were not only reluctant to accept the propaganda onus of ending the conference, but also shrank from the prospect that a breakdown of the negotiations might spur the Russians to some kind of action against West Berlin (whose Mayor Willy Brandt turned up at Geneva last week...
...four weeks of niggling negotiations and propaganda barrages, Geneva had finally focused down to one essential issue: the future status of Berlin. Last week, to the surprise of practically nobody, Western ministers unveiled to Gromyko the concessions that they were prepared to make over Berlin. The chief proposals, apart from a demand that Russia guarantee Western access to the city...
...Creation of a Big Four commission to investigate specific complaints, Eastern or Western, over the use of both halves of Berlin as propaganda, subversion and espionage centers...
...Mostly the hope is for a better life. Since World War II, 26 million rural Latin Americans have left the countryside for cities that shimmer with promise of jobs. food, clothes, houses, education. They arrive to find unemployment, housing shortages. jammed schools. Each disillusionment chafes doubly as a Communist propaganda drumfire pounds on it. And the new prosperity of Europe, the new and well publicized political freedom in Africa, added to existing prosperity and freedom in the U.S.. serve to make Latin America seem relatively stalled...