Word: propagandist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last summer two dozen U.S. evangelists descended on the country in an invasion planned to the last poster by ex-Propagandist Muto. Teaming up with Japanese pastors and three marimbas, an organ, harp, chorus, a public-address system and a portable stage, they had encouraging results for such a stubbornly non-Christian country: an estimated 88,520 people reached in 140 public services, and 45 baptized, with another 89 being prepared for baptism...
...past or present membership in the Communist Party on the part of any of the persons he named in his lists." When he did have a good case, he damaged it by distortion. 'Thus McCarthy, instead of presenting Owen Lattimore as the skillful, effective and influential party-lining propagandist he was, characterized him as the 'top secret espionage agent' in America...
Religion may be the opium of the people, but to a Russian propagandist it can be a mighty handy gadget. Last week the Kremlin's latest piece of religious propaganda dropped right out of the sky over Turkey...
Among the 1,000 newsmen covering the Geneva Conference last week was London and Manhattan Communist Daily Worker Correspondent Wilfred Burchett. Australian-born Correspondent Burchett was last seen by Western newsmen in Korea, where he worked as a Red propagandist, helped get "confessions" from prisoners and covered the war and truce negotiations from the Communist side (TIME, Aug. 6, 1951). In Geneva he left little doubt he was still on the same side. Wrote Burchett this week: "[The Communist] plan . . . for ending the war in Indo-China burst like a bombshell on the American and French delegation. It dissipated...
Learning the News. At seven the next morning Naguib woke, switched on the radio and heard the surprising news: at 4 a.m. the R.C.C. had accepted his resignation and had named Nasser to his place as Premier. Over the air, Chief Propagandist Salah Salem painted Mohammed Naguib as never before−an ambitious, hypocritical, devious publicity seeker. Added Salem: Naguib was not "under arrest," but had merely been "asked to remain in his house a month...