Word: propagandist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the respective cliques of General Goring, Propagandist Goebbels and Labor Front Leader Dr. Robert Ley all struggling for mastery of German economic and financial policy last week, Dr. Schacht himself went off to Essen and in this Krupp stronghold addressed a meeting of 400 directors of German savings banks. Some of them came out convinced they had heard the brusque, autocratic Reichsbanker squawk a guttural swan song. Others thought Dr. Schacht had delivered publicly just such an accounting of his stewardship as he might have made in private to convince the Führer that German economy must continue...
...declined to print his words and editorially questioned his ethics in giving his letter simultaneously to the daily press): "The C. L. I. D. is ... militantly partisan and radical. ... It is evident that these meetings are not for judicial consideration, or for social education, but that they are purely propagandist, with more than a tinge of Communism. Should any organization be allowed to use the General Convention as a means for its economic and political propaganda...
...naive? Could any illustrate better THE SEEMINGLY persistent incapacity of the German to realize the other fellow's point of view? Reverse the positions-suppose Eden and Chamberlain were to come out on the platform of an official body designed to organize every Englishman living abroad as a propagandist for democracy and so, in Germany, as a propagandist against Naziism. Would Hitler tolerate it for a moment? Why he cannot so much as tolerate Rotary. . . . Yet while straining at a gnat himself, he expects us to swallow camels...
...most readers, interest in The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is now eclipsed by the much-predicted decline & fall of the civilization now current. Because he wrote colorfully and lacked the wide propagandist streak of many modern historians, Edward Gibbon seems to most present-day readers less the greatest English historian than the most industrious and fervid of historical novelists. About the only part of Gibbon's reputation so far not attacked is his claim to being the ugliest historian in English literature, and of having produced, for his size, the most impressive work...
Recently, according to Paris-Soir, svelte Cinemactress Riefenstahl attended a reception at the home of Nazi Minister of the Interior Wilhelm Frick. Also present was bitter little Paul Joseph Goebbels, the No. 3 Nazi and chief propagandist...