Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your observation that the damage done to U.S.-British relations during the utterances by Churchill, Attlee, et al. was partly caused by the failure of Americans "to take seriously years of anti-American propaganda by British journalists and intellectuals" is perfectly justified...
When the Knoxville Journal, one of the city's two papers, found out about it, it headlined the fact Tennessee was showing "Communist propaganda films." The next day, a local American Legion Post resolved that by the showing, Tennessee students "were being subjected to immoral and un-American information...
seventeen asserted that they had "faith in the capacity of the students to decide for themselves what ideas they wished to embrace. We feel confident that if the propaganda in the gill were blatant then no one, especially the students would be duped by it," The protest was no official statement of the political science department. Only two of the signers held positions as high as associate professors. The rest were teaching fellows or research assistants. Instructor John Houbel summed it up, "We acted as individuals quiet outside the normal channels of administrative procedure...
They chose a plan which would be a lesson in counter propaganda. University officials latched onto the "Hoaxters", a lesson in Nazi methods of propaganda, and billed it along with "New China" for a showing on April...
After the hectic day Minnesota's Administrative Vice-President Malcolm Willy said "The showing of the "Hoaxters" in conjunction with "New China" might well have raised in the minds of its viewers question whether "the Hoaxters" is the best kind of propaganda film that could be devised."CHARLIE CHAPLIN...