Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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 showings, Tennessee students "were being subjected to immoral and un-American information...
...government coalition; four Communists have been elected to Congress on the official ticket, and the anti-Communist opposition now holds only five of the 64 congressional seats. The President has given the Reds patronage and subsidies for their two newspapers. They run the government's radio and press propaganda; government trucks and projectors are used to show Communist films of alleged U.S. germ warfare in Korea...
...Communist advisers and policymakers. If the Reds are putting over the Cominform line in Guatemala, the wider meaning of this is lost on him. Neighboring Central American republics are at odds with Guatemala over the growing evidence that its comrades play the international Communist game, passing Red propaganda into Nicaragua and El Salvador and sending agitators to stir up Salvadorian and Honduran banana and coffee workers. Inside his own country, the split between left & right has widened until Arbenz himself says: "There is no middle ground today in Guatemala...
...people, in Asia and in Africa, whom the U.S. hopes to lead to democracy. They judge the U.S. very largely on evidence drawn from the "Negro problem." The U.S. has probably won more enemies by stories, true and false, about its treatment of Negroes than by any other propaganda; but many Negroes feel that the U.S. could be winning friends instead. Just how much individual Negroes have done to win friends for the U.S. is almost never realized: they have been effective both in the diplomatic service (which so far employs only a handful?about 60) and in personal contacts...
...checked rather abruptly the happy excitement caused by the return of over one hundred American prisoners of war. When twenty-three ex-prisoners landed in San Francisco last week, the press was denied interviews with them, the Army's reason being that the soldiers may have succumbed to Communist propaganda. That the twenty-three men had been interned by the Communists longer than most other Americans seemed to be the only basis for the Pentagon's fear...