Word: propagandist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Propagandist Goebbels' words had long since failed. When heads fall, it will not be Goebbels who cuts them off. Until his own head falls, it will be Heinrich Himmler who swings...
Then came war with Russia. No propagandist fanfare accompanied 1942's sober figure of 15.2 per 1,000-a rate of decline almost as great as that of World War I. Last week, however, inventive Dr. Goebbels, announcing the figures for the first three months of 1943, proudly displayed "a surprising increase" of 11.4%, not in the birth rate, but in births. He did not volunteer the explanation: no sudden increase in "birthjoy," but inclusion for the first time of Nazi-occupied territories...
...Said Propagandist Roosevelt: This is an appropriate time to address a word to Italians. Mussolini, for personal gain, betrayed his own people and handed over his country to Hitler. The Italian people, largely peace-loving, are not responsible for their present plight. The United Nations hope that Italy can be restored to a "respected" place as a member of Europe's family of nations...
...Nazi propagandist urged the U.S. people last week to buy meat on the black market. A short-wave broadcast in English attacked a U.S. Government report that black-market meat was inferior and likely to be diseased. The Nazi commentator sneered: "Trick!" He announced that in Boston everyone agrees black-market meat is "first class...
...dragged from their chargers while the uniformed ranks showed signs of mutiny. But many critics seemed decidedly obtuse about The Eternal City. New York Times Critic Edward Alden Jewell declared: "The political aspects of this treatise are not altogether clear. We are left in doubt as to whether the propagandist considers this modern dictator a self-sprung megalomaniac or a figurehead manipulated by social forces...