Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WHENEVER the U.S. announces a new series of nuclear tests, protests against fallout dangers rumble at home and abroad. Last week, with the U.S. planning to hold tests at Eniwetok this summer, and with Moscow hinting at a unilateral test ban as a propaganda ploy, the rumble turned to thunder. But this time a recognized authority, the University of California's Physicist Edward Teller (TIME Cover, Nov. 18, 1957) was ready with an important book stating the case for continued testing. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Nuclear Tests: World Debate...
...means, to learn about the drawbacks of your system, not from the words of Mr. Khrushchev, who is known to be anticapitalist, but from Mr. Meany, who supports capitalism." He was getting more playful as the conversation continued, and after one more critique of capitalism, he asked: "Is this propaganda?" He seemed delighted when Dick Scammon said: "In a word...
...symptomatic of the great unrest in French consciences today." Other signs of unrest: the French Reformed Church, as well as the Catholic Church, has repeatedly drawn attention to abuses in Algeria. Speaking not only against excessive use of violence there but against bitter anti-Algerian propaganda at home, the Assembly of Cardinals and Archbishops of France said: "Every Frenchman must love his country and be prepared to serve it without hating othe.' countries." Last week La Mission de France, a society of 400 priests headed by Achille Cardinal Lienart, condemned French abuses and sympathized with the Algerians' drive...
...suffered from a propaganda failure. Despite a national obsession with "good public relations," no U.S. Administration has ever found a means of capitalizing on its anti-colonialism in Asia and Africa without bitterly antagonizing the colonial powers of Europe...
...gutting the elections, Batista made propaganda for Castro. From the start the rebel boss had denounced the "electoral farce," refused to nominate a candidate, and insisted that the only way to deal with Batista was violence. Batista also put the friendly U.S. State Department, which had been urging elections on him, in a most unhappy position. In effect, the U.S. policy had now been rejected by all sides...