Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your story on the poverty of pastors [July 14] is ecclesiastical propaganda and misleading. While the typical "Man of God" is reclining in his air-conditioned office mulling over a sermon that he has delivered a hundred times, the people financially footing the bill are hard at work in field and factory. Any resemblance between the modern preacher and the lowly Nazarene is accidental and incidental...
Last week the U.S. Government's patience was running out on another hugand-tug type of foreign diplomat in Washington. Name: Mikhail Alekseevich Menshikov, ambassador of the U.S.S.R., who has carried Dictator Khrushchev's stop-nuclear tests and let's-have-a-parley-at-the-summit propaganda to the U.S. public via TV press conferences, businessmen's dinners and cultural wingdings with such sincere style that he got the nickname of "Smiling Mike" (TIME, March 17 et seq.). Sample exchange: Q. How can we trust you on stopping nuclear tests when you violated the armistice...
Last month Menshikov was warned in a nice way by Under Secretary of State Robert Murphy, now busy with Middle East matters, that he was specifically violating diplomatic procedure by sending Soviet propaganda to members of Congress and key Government agencies, e.g., Vice President Nixon, Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn, California Democratic Representative Jimmy Roosevelt, without channeling it through the State Department as required. Menshikov smilingly promised to look into the matter, did nothing. Last week the State Department let it be known that the U.S.'s final recourse in such a matter might be to declare such...
...Gaulle's angularly dignified assertion of French independence, matched by Macmillan's cool self-confidence, might even help the U.S. free itself from fears of an untimely and unequal propaganda confrontation with Khrushchev...
Bourguiba, besides wanting to be friendly with France, also wants to make Tunisia strong enough economically to withstand the assault of Nasser-style propaganda. He is reported "deeply disturbed" by the continued subservience of the Algerian F.L.N. to Cairo, while Cairo compares him to the "imperialist lackey," Nuri asSaid of Iraq...