Word: propagandist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Good Propagandist. Finns cannot quite account for Russia's relatively lenient treatment. "Russia is mostly interested in getting the reparations from us," some say, "and therefore is letting us alone." Others proudly think that Russians fear to risk a long struggle with a people so passionately devoted to liberty. Another favorite explanation: "the Kremlin considers its present policy toward Finland good propaganda, especially for the Scandinavian countries." Many call their land "Russia's model protectorate...
...thanks-and-good-bye" letter to the U.S. (TIME, July 8) was thickly spread with applesauce. Soviet Russia's visiting Ehrenburg, who turned off all criticisms of Russia by criticisms of the U.S., had moved even the leftist Nation to complain of this "talented but transparent propagandist." Wrote the New York Herald Tribune's Walter Lippmann: "Surely somewhere in the recesses of [Ehrenburg's] conscience, since he is a highly educated man, a still small voice must be saying that he does not, did not, and cannot write as honestly about his own country as he writes...
Russia's No. 1 Propagandist-journalist, slight, greying Ilya Ehrenburg, had spent two months in the U.S., encouraged to look where he liked. Last week, for the United Press, he wrote a 1,700-word bread & butter letter, full of praise for America's splendid highways and damnation for U.S. newspapers. Obviously, if this great country was not getting along with his great country, the fault was America's Excerpts...
...road to office was not all smooth for Candidate Steel. To the New York World-Telegram, he was " 'an all-out defender of Stalin's politics' with a special bent for Soviet worship. . . ." The New Leader, an anti-Communist labor paper, described him as "a servile propagandist... a consistent fabricator ... of his personal life and history," recalled that he was once praised by the Soviet Izvestia as a "lonely voice" in America. The New Leader also pointed out that Steel had the classic commentator's background-in 1934 he had written: "Hitler's days...
...village bride selected for him when he was 14, and subsequently disregarded. No. 2 was a professor's daughter, devoted Yang Kai-hui, mother of Mao's Moscow-schooled sons; she was killed in the civil war of the '20s. No. 3 was a militant propagandist, frail Ho Tzu-ch'un; she is reported to have borne Mao five sons, all left for safety with peasant women during the civil war, and all since dis appeared. In 1938 Mao and Ho separated, later were divorced ; for consolation, ex-Wife Ho went to Moscow...