Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fiery debate over whether the U.S. should halt nuclear tests is flaring up as the nation gets ready for this summer's tests at Eniwetok. (Somehow it never seems to flare when the Russians are testing.) Last week, as Washington waited for Russia to strike the propaganda pose of unilaterally halting its own tests, the British Labor Party's Hugh Gaitskell, a likely future Prime Minister, called upon Britain to declare a unilateral test ban of its own. In St. Louis, Washington University's left-leaning Physicist Edward U. Condon predicted that because of radioactive fallout from...
...after Nikita Khrushchev was anointed Premier and dictator nonpareil of the Soviet Union (see FOREIGN NEWS), he was back in business at the same old cold-war propaganda stand, ready with another thick slice for all comers, especially the U.S. Ignoring the fact that Russia had just completed a smashing series of nuclear tests, Khrushchev's government protested the U.S. tests scheduled for April through August in the Marshall Islands...
Then Washington braced for Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko's announcement this week before a cheering joint session of the Supreme Soviet that the U.S.S.R. will unilaterally suspend nuclear tests. The move will serve the double purpose for Russia of making-peace propaganda for the credulous and avoiding the bothersome problem of the inspection system needed to make any test suspension worth more than a tinker's curse...
...will bury you,'' he said boisterously in November 1956 at a Moscow reception, and the burial plans are many. And it is equally clear that against Khrushchev's threats the U.S. cannot be satisfied with mere counterprograms to Soviet programs, counterploys to Soviet ploys, counter-propaganda to Soviet propaganda...
Home from his trip to the SEATO Conference in Manila, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles was feeling gloomy. In Manila he had been dismayed to see how successful the Russians were in getting their summit-meeting propaganda across to Asians. In Washington he found U.S. newspaper front pages giving solemn treatment to the old Russian proposals, which, in effect, were aimed at undermining the strong points of the free world. Dulles decided that it was high time to put on the record some reasons why the U.S. is dead set against going to a summit meeting on Russian terms...