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Word: propagandas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Scum. Last week Premier Otto Grotewohl appointed what West Berliners promptly labeled a "commissar for the prevention of flights"; to fill the job he dipped into the Communist penalty box and came up with Gerhart Eisler, the shifty little Comintern agent who recently lost his job as East German propaganda chief, and was presumed on the way out. He explained his long absence from the political arena without a smile: "I had to have my teeth repaired." Then he turned to the refugees. They were all "underworld characters, trash proletarians, black marketeers and scum . . ." but anyway, Eisler was going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BERLIN: Promise Renewed | 3/2/1953 | See Source »

...actual political union with the overbearing Argentines, most Chileans, beaten down by 15 years of inflation and ruinously high living costs, are probably willing to try any sort of economic collaboration that might bring some Argentine wheat and meat to their markets. Said Perón's propaganda man, Raúl Mende: "Hunger is our ally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: In Search of Something | 3/2/1953 | See Source »

Anyone Familiar with the way Senator McCarthy selects and grills his witnesses will realize the Voice of America is much more than the babble of Communists, free-lovers, and homosexuals. But despite the distorted nature of this latest Inquisition, it has pointed up dramatically the fact that American propaganda efforts are still greatly inadequate for the job they must do. Looking behind soiled departmental linen, hung out by disgruntled employees, it is clear that U. S. psychological warfare must be exempt from both economic and ideological orthodoxy if it is to challenge the Soviets in the arena of the mind...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Faltering Voice | 2/26/1953 | See Source »

...investigation condemns his own branch of the Government. For when the Voice asked five hundred million dollars for its work, those Congressmen of vision who call themselves the economy bloc gave it seventy-five. With this piddle, the Voice was supposed to counter effectively the multi-billion dollar Russian propaganda machine. Starved for workers and pinched for funds, it is little wonder the Voice hired a number of incompetents and several questionables. Such are the fruits of economy. Now the economy bloe, with which McCarthy voted, castigates the Voice of its failure to match the Russians. Such are the fruits...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Faltering Voice | 2/26/1953 | See Source »

...anti-Communism, psychological warfare tackles a most difficult enigma in human relations: conversion. and converters, from St. Paul onward, could testify that their job is hopeless unless they can tie their doctrine to ideas of those they influence. Catholic missionaries in China paint their cherubs with yellow skins, Communist propaganda plays on Asian love of independence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Faltering Voice | 2/26/1953 | See Source »

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