Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Across the Communist empire the Red propaganda network chattered into action. "Good news has come from the Soviet Union," crowed East Germany's Neues Deutschland. "The most powerful weapon ever developed is in good hands." Communist diplomats haughtily brushed aside the latest Western proposals on disarmament (see FOREIGN NEWS), instead threatened U.S. allies and warned them to abandon U.S. bases. The new missile, said Moscow radio, "is a gigantic step forward that ought to cool off the hotheads...
...Republican Leader Joe Martin was considering retreat, Vice President Nixon punched hard for a meaningful bill. The verdict on his efforts was best rendered by his opponents. Just when the Senate was about to pass his watered-down bill, Democrat Johnson arose to attack Nixon for leading "a concerted propaganda campaign" against it. And last week, after the final vote on the civil rights bill had been taken, Georgia's Senator Richard Russell, the most influential Southerner of them all, paid Nixon a bitter sort of tribute. Said Russell: the civil rights bill will be enforced by "political-minded...
...British. French and Canadian delegations interpreted Zorin's remarks as propaganda aimed at next month's German elections. It was obvious that until after Germany votes, the public meetings in London are going to prove little. Even the ever-ebullient U.S. Negotiator Harold Stassen seemed a little discouraged after Soviet Delegate Zorin declared, "The optimistic picture that Mr. Stassen painted for us far from exists...
When France devalued the franc, newly independent Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba saw a chance to make a little money-and a little propaganda. By the end of the year, said Bourguiba last week. Tunisia will abandon the French franc and issue its own currency, thereby freeing itself from a "policy dominated by instability and by the requirements of a war [in Algeria] whose end cannot be seen...
...publishers woo the teachers at "hot spring parties," and the teachers see to it that Marxist texts get adopted by their schools. One such text, Model Junior High Social Study, was edited by the author of the story that inspired the anti-American film Hiroshima, is nothing but a propaganda tract against capitalism and Western imperialism. Another book, Enlightened Society, carries the picture of the "great leader" Mao Tse-tung, describes Japan as "the problem child of the Far East" and a nation that has always been inferior to China and Russia. The Russian declaration...