Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Aided by the passage of time, the steady drumfire of Communist propaganda had done much to becloud the facts of the Rosenberg case. In the summer of 1950, the FBI had arrested Julius Rosenberg, a sallow, bespectacled engineer, on the charge that he had acted as paymaster and talent scout for a spy ring which, during and after World War II, delivered to Russia U.S. military secrets of supreme importance. His wife Ethel was accused of aiding...
...become the only independent film producer in Argen tina. With Evita's support, he was able to buck the powerful Argentine Film Producers' Association, even though its top men were her brother Juan Duarte, the President's private secretary, and Raul Apold, Peron's propaganda chief. Del Carril produced, directed and starred in two big hits, one a semi-documentary that won honorable mention at the Venice film fes tival and was probably the best movie ever made in Argentina...
...occasion to write the governor on other matters, he wo'tild preface his letters with the phrase, "Not about Silas Rogers." Kilpatrick wrote a series of cold, factual editorials on the case, deliberately avoided sensationalism for fear that Red-front groups would leap into the fray for propaganda purposes...
Died. Robert Henry Best, 56, South Carolina-born newspaperman and longtime (1923-41) United Press correspondent in Vienna, who turned traitor during World War II, was tried and sentenced to life imprisonment in 1948 (TIME, July 12, 1948) for broadcasting Nazi propaganda from Berlin (sample: "I hope that Europe will demand the life of one Jew for every European who dies in the present war"); of a cerebral hemorrhage; at the U.S. Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield...
...press "corrections" from any other government that feels it has been misrepresented by U.S. papers. U.S. Delegate Charles Sprague, ex-governor of Oregon and publisher of the Salem (Ore.) Statesman, called the treaty a "hazardous step" because it would force a government to distribute to its press any propaganda other countries wanted to foist upon it. The Russians and their satellites also voted against the treaty on completely different grounds: they are still pushing for a treaty that will stop the "warmongering of the Western press," i.e., any news the Communists don't like. Even though the U.S., Britain...