Word: propagandist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Typical German propagandist broadcasts designed to shake British morale contain minute details of what goes on inside individual British aircraft factories, tidbits of shop gossip which it would be easy for British Communist workers to pick up. Six-foot Rajani Palme Dutt, who succeeded Harry Pollitt as secretary of the Party (Pollitt is still a working member), is an Indian who has spent his life in Europe as a political agitator, stands well with Stalin and Molotov...
...debate what was in many British minds. In a powerful, reasoned and disturbing speech he shocked the House by declaring: "Unless we can with speed and with the utmost efficiency reorganize our resources . . . victory may be beyond our grasp." Laborite Shinwell went on to denounce the Government's propagandist optimism ("The people of this country have no desire to be fobbed off with an exaggerated optimism which has no foundation in fact'') and the Government's inconsistent announcements on industrial production ("The Government should perform like a symphony orchestra and not like a jazz band...
...with an accident of a quite different nature. Possibly an internal explosion-sabotage, if you will-such as a boiler explosion; the power is sufficient. Or perhaps a collision with another ship: in the darkness somebody zigged when he should have zagged. In either case an alert British propagandist could make excellent capital of the mishap-with a rigid and sympathetic censorship holding up the news until the collective stories should hang together fairly well...
...premises a large variety for HARV's listeners, which will include broadcasts of Browne and Nichols football tussels, rebroadcasts of Germany's short-wave propagandist. Lord Haw-Haw, and of London news commentaries, and music from jam session to symphony...
...Evacuation would fill Britain's roads and rail lines with refugees. Britain's rear would then be meat for total war. The censors permitted the New York Herald Tribune's Edward Angly to cable at week's end: "It would be a poor observer or propagandist who would now ask America to believe that London is still doing business as usual...