Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ambassador Kennan wrote an angry protest, adding some stiff comments about Russia's current Hate America propaganda campaign, and fired it off to the Soviet Foreign Ministry. Later the same day, a Soviet messenger appeared...
Douglas cited the standard reasons why it would be dangerous to do anything beyond what the U.S. is doing now in Korea: "We would inevitably kill Chinese women & children by ... bombing [beyond the Yalu], and the Communists would use this fact as a powerful propaganda weapon...
...testify, and contemptuously egged on demonstrators outside the court. Last week, as the government concluded its case, Court President Dokter Hermann Höpker-Aschoff made an announcement: pending the court's decision (not expected before fall), the neo-Nazi SRP was specifically enjoined from all public or propaganda activity. This extended all the way from holding election rallies to publishing newspapers to singing songs. Penalty for violations: a minimum of six months in jail...
...after repeated protests to the Reds, State did what the Russians wanted: it closed up Amerika. In retaliation, State ordered the Reds to stop U.S. circulation of the Soviet Embassy's U.S.S.R. Information Bulletin and other embassy pamphlets, a meaningless counterblow, since the Reds can print all the propaganda they want to in Manhattan's Daily Worker and other Communist publications. Said the New York Times: "The suspension of Amerika is regrettable because it was the last direct means of giving the Russian people a glimpse of American life and American aims in refutation of Soviet lies. That...
...propaganda battle of the cold war, objectivity often plays right into the Russians' hands. For example, Davis noted that I.N.S. Correspondent Kingsbury Smith had a worldwide beat when he got answers to a list of questions he had sent to Stalin. "It has been reported-and, so far as I know not denied, that Kingsbury Smith had been tipped off that Stalin would answer those questions and presumably no others." Stalin's reply was "exactly [what] he would have written to get his propaganda arguments before the world . . . yet American newsmen keep asking Stalin the kind of questions...