Word: propagandists
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...fondness for quoting the plays of Jean (The Madwoman of Chaillot) Giraudoux, Fouchet has a reputation for plain speaking and personal honesty. He escaped when France fell, served as a Free French paratrooper. He has been a dedicated Gaullist ever since, worked for Le Grand Charles as propagandist, diplomat, watchdog in the National Assembly, and for the past eight months as chairman of the Fouchet Committee on European unity while at the same time serving as Ambassador to Denmark. Fouchet managed to keep the respect of other diplomats from Common Market nations even while arguing De Gaulle's unpopular...
Died. George Sylvester Viereck, 77, prim and cocky German propagandist in two world wars, a German-born naturalized U.S. citizen who turned to poetry and journalism, worshiped strong men and machines, drew fire for editing the Fatherland magazine for German-Americans in the World War I era, and in World War II was sent to prison for almost four years on conviction of failing to register as an agent on the payroll of Germany to distribute propaganda through U.S. mails; of a stroke; in Hoi-yoke, Mass...
...chained, humiliated, sick with fear; we are at our lowest ebb." With these words, France's existentialist philosopher and left-wing propagandist, Jean-Paul Sartre, donned the mantle of doom for his countrymen.* Describing the much-discussed crisis of conscience confronting France as a result of the Algerian war, Sartre coined a new expression, "involution" -a tragic process by which the former colonizers adopt the savagery of the native lands they once colonized...
...Soviet Union, romance took the form of girl-loves-tractor. In Communist China, it is girl-loves-bucket. Gushed a Red propagandist: "The girl carries away the soil as the boy dredges the pond. Sweat drips from their bodies. The girl does not complain of fatigue, although she has carried a thousand loads; nor does the boy feel the chill in the mud. It is not convenient to talk to each other, but they understand each other at heart. Both are heroic fellows. They work until the stars disappear and the sun rises...
...nuclear, disarmament in vaguer but more rhetorical terms, demanding a "truce to terror" and saying that "together we shall save our planet--or together we shall perish in its flames." John N. Plank '45, assistant professor of Government and an expert on the United Nations, felt that "the propagandist line came through quite clearly there." But Plank added that Kennedy used the General Assembly "precisely as it should be used"--to persuade people rather than hammer out programs...