Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flowed to the President's desk. The Red campaign to "save the Rosenbergs" may have inspired the pleas, but many of them came from non-Communist clergymen and scientists, from liberals and humanitarians, from those who thought it bad politics to let the Communists have "martyrs" for their propaganda. At the focus of pressure, Dwight Eisenhower did not flinch...
...propaganda masters had called this violent tune. But most Europeans who danced to it were not Reds, and those who danced in ignorance could largely blame their non-Communist press and leaders. The details of the Rosenbergs' crime and their painstaking, patient trial by U.S. justice were meagerly reported in the foreign press...
...German mechanic sent to Prague to service machinery: "Prague was blocked by troops, the capital was in a state of siege, factory workers were in an uproar. One worker told me in German: 'We don't care what happens to us; we are tired of the propaganda, the swindle. If we don't get our salary, we will stop working...
...before Senator Joe McCarthy's two young investigators, Cohn and Schine, took off for a quick look at U.S. library shelves all over the Continent. Removed were works by Reds, fellow travelers, controversial figures, "et cetera." Some of the blacklisted authors are Communists like Howard Fast, who writes propaganda novels; others are Communists whose works are not party propaganda, e.g., Dashiell Hammett's The Thin Man. Some were by notably non-Communist authors whose works or opinions had apparently annoyed somebody (in a similar shelf cleanup in Bombay, books by Bert Andrews, Clarence Streit and Walter White were...
...word for the secretary general of Venezuela's Acción Democrática, the underground opposition to the dictatorship of Colonel Marco Pérez Jiménez. A.D.'s field commander, who directs espionage in government offices and keeps the government jumpy with incessant propaganda and occasional bombings, is hunted day and night, seldom sleeps twice in the same place. Within the last nine months, one A.D. chief was killed, another died in prison, and a third was jailed. Last week the fourth, a 35-year-old economist named Antonio Pinto Salinas, was shot to death...