Word: propagandist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...either the state or the neighbors.. ..") The plain-born high-church Bishop asked: "What is to be said of colleges and universities which hold up before our youth as a reputable teacher of philosophy, and as an example of light and leading, a man who is a recognized propagandist against both religion and morality, and who specifically defends adultery...
Lord Haw-Haw, the mysterious Nazi propagandist with the frozen British accent, has had more than his share of 1940 Mother Goose. When British aircraft flew over Germany one night last week, Nazi transmitters (including Lord Haw-Haw's station at Hamburg) blanked out as usual so that their waves could not be used for directional purposes by the invaders. A BBC funster gibed: "He shouts with rage and screams with fear, but pipes down when our planes are near...
...real identity became a national British pastime. He was spotted as (among others): 1) a German professor who once preached Naziism in Scotland; 2) Norman Baillie-Stewart, famed ex-Seaforth Highlander once clapped in the Tower of London for betraying military secrets (and now thought to be Scotty, propagandist and master of ceremonies on the twice-weekly Cabaret in English on the Nazi radio); 3) Henry William Wicks, onetime London insurance man now living in Germany with his Nazi-minded wife. Listeners got into learned dispute over his accent. It was aristocratic, public-school, phony. Novelist Rose Macaulay pronounced...
Personable M. Lanux is due to arrive soon in the U. S. for a "propaganda tour." Preceding him last week came a 15-page mimeographed handout entitled Anti-French Opinion in the United States. Propagandist Lanux shrewdly assembled the hardest, most awkward and embarrassing things he could imagine a U. S. citizen saying about France and listed them as the "Twelve Chief Attacks." Then he shrewdly wrote his "Twelve Answers Concerning France." Altogether M. Lanux' attacks are better than his answers. Excerpts...