Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prisoner of war, both categories: Allied, who in overwhelming numbers, in spite of months of insistent propaganda, demanded repatriation; Chinese and North Korean, who in overwhelming numbers, with no organized program of propaganda, rejected repatriation...
...their big business (a necessary evil, he thinks), uses much of the national revenue in the maintenance of the elements of the system's machinery-the army, the state police, censorship, the Catholic Church, the corporative agencies, the União National (Government's Party) and the propaganda bureaus. With a few hundred thousand collaborationists, dependent on the regime, he keeps the other part of the people impotent. But this is his "victory": in exchange for fiscal stability, the Portuguese people have lost much of their vitality and personality. As a result of 27 years of well-masked...
Answer: The world is getting pretty sick of propaganda conferences, and we will not be expected to sit there and listen to propaganda harangues...
...will be promoted in the army. You will be cited for meritorious achievement. You will be given priority to take a government job." But the unbelieving Red P.W.s stayed hunched on their backless wooden benches. They chain-smoked and tried to keep warm. One started to make a propaganda speech ("I saw Americans bombing our camps with germs . . ."), but the Indian chairman quickly cut him off. The others spoke little, and without passion. Only when the ROK explainers showed photographs or played tape recordings from home did the Red P.W.s show emotion. One moon-faced girl in pigtails stared...
...coverage, while correspondents in turn severely criticize editors for not giving enough space to foreign reporting. "I do not know what happens to an American reporter who is assigned to foreign fields," says one editor. "Before very long his stories take on the same old mediocre handout-and sometimes propaganda-slant." Adds another editor: correspondents often "write like foreign ministers...