Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...distorted a picture of Russia as the traveling U.S. journalists (see above). Though its correspondent, Harrison E. Salisbury, files only closely censored stories, the Times prints his dispatches as it gets them, assumes that the paper's readers are "intelligent enough" to know they may be reading Communist propaganda. It tries to keep Salisbury's picture of Russia in focus with separate interpretative articles and editorials...
Since Dibelius championed German unification, the Reds were anxious to use him for propaganda purposes-as they have successfully used Niemoller, a man of integrity and bad judgment who is now Germany's leading "neutralist." Dibelius, though much courted, turned courteously from the Red blandishments. Eight years-ago he quietly joined Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's Christian Democratic Party...
Actually, the editors had dug out an old Sovfoto picture taken back in 1937, when Joseph Stalin was busily purging his Old Bolshevik pals and grinding out propaganda that they were traitors who deserved to be shot. One sharp-eyed Times reader, Editor, Author and ex-Communist Max Eastman, who reads Russian, spotted something the Times editors had missed on a propaganda poster raised above the crowd. Wrote Eastman to the Times: the Salisbury story gave "the impression of an entire nation orphaned and in deep mourning. Perhaps it would help toward an understanding of the deeper state of mind...
...second feature, No Time for Flowers, boasts filming entirely in Austria, made possible only through the protection of the United States Army. An attempted satire on Communism, the film becomes unhappily serious whenever "the land of equal opportunity" is mentioned. The story, a continuous string of clumsy propaganda incidents, relates the seduction of a loyal party woman to the wonders of the West. The seduction is embodied in a handsome, disloyal Russian with a De Pinna sportcoat, a Hollywood apartment, and a stack of bourgeois magazines...
...Housemasters realize that wholesale propaganda campaigns will just increase the difficulty of keeping the Houses representative. Even though each Master takes pride in the competitive accomplishments of his House, they shun recruiting. Neither they nor their tutors have been connected with the recent unpleasantness...