Word: propagandist
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...diplomacy and to convince the French through Gallic logic. Ben Khedda was shunted to a minor Cabinet post, and became the first F.L.N. dignitary to lead an official mission to Red China. After touring other Communist countries as an ambassador at large, he turned up as a persuasive F.L.N. propagandist in Latin America, and received a VIP welcome from Cuba's Fidel Castro...
...sense of humor, discovered Gerhart Eisler, longtime Red eminence in the U.S. who bail-jumped to East Germany in 1949, is a scarce commodity behind the Iron Curtain. After facetiously broadcasting a proposal to partition Washington and to garrison "East Washington" with German Democratic Republic troops, Chief Radio Propagandist Eisler found himself afoul of Communist Boss Walter Ulbricht, who seemed to take the suggestion seriously. After explaining himself, Eisler took to a local newspaper next day to slap his own heavy hand, admitted that Ulbricht "told me I should have my head examined...
Since the war, Bethe has had little time for his work at Cornell. Trusted by Presidents from Franklin Roosevelt to Jack Kennedy for his dispassionate scientific judgment, he is constantly called on for advice on everything from missile nose cones to nuclear testing. He is no propagandist, nor does he see nuclear-age problems in black and white. He is deeply worried about the doomsday peril of nuclear warfare, but he does not let this emotion-charged subject, about which many scientists are bitterly partisan, drive him to stubborn extremes. In judging nuclear test ban treaties, he recognizes the difficulty...
Leading the playbill is a performance of the ballet Lileya by the Kiev State Opera Company. If you don't listen to the amusingly propagandist narration, or pay too much attention to the equally amusing, equally nationalistic plot, and are not bothered by the rough edges of some of the Russian camera techniques, the dancing and the music are probably worth your last evening before Christmas vacation...
...line would be enough to recapture all the lost ground. Khrushchev's own description of Ike's speech as "conciliatory" suggested that Khrushchev was eager to begin negotiating again. That night, instead of closeting himself with his advisers, Khrushchev resumed his favorite role of informal comic and propagandist. Flanked by his ever-present army of security guards, he rolled up to the staid Plaza Hotel to attend a Togolese reception. As he stepped from his limousine, hundreds of New Yorkers greeted him with the wildest chorus of boos and catcalls that he had got all week. Smiling...