Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Moscow-did-it line might harm U.S. prestige just when that prestige was needed to get the Suez Canal running again. In Washington the State Department quickly announced that Dillon "was expressing his personal views in answer to a question"; privately State's exasperated spokesmen predicted that Soviet propaganda would make much of Dillon's blunder...
...smuggle out of Hungary a message for U.S. Cardinal Spellman. Father Turchanyi-who was also in the legation photograph and clearly identifiable-was caught at the Austrian border and imprisoned by the Reds. Both the flag episode and the message, the Vatican fears, may strengthen the familiar Communist propaganda line that Mindszenty is an American stooge...
Under Piasecki's direction, and with the aid of lavish government subsidies, PAX blossomed into a sprawling industrial and propaganda complex. It published magazines and books, controlled factories producing everything from shoes to metal goods, ran its own motor pool, its own high school and hospitals. It also had a lucrative monopoly of the sale of devotional items and religious literature in Poland...
...what were the people of the satellites to think? Had they nothing more to hope for and no one to count on? There were many who had heard the Voice of America and Radio Free Europe lending them encouragement. A close scrutiny of propaganda broadcasts would undoubtedly show that no promise had been made to come to their aid if they started something, but desperate people might not have noticed this final omission. The real lesson of the June 1953 revolt in East Germany and of the Poznan riots in Poland last summer was that...
...bring down Nasser, the French reasoned, was to stop the flow of money, arms and propaganda which keeps Algeria in active revolt. Merely to wound Nasser was to leave Algeria as serious a situation as before. With less than 100 of the 586 Deputies present, Parliament listened in frigid silence as Foreign Minister Christian Pineau announced the withdrawal of French troops from Suez...