Word: propagandists
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...jury had also heard government witnesses describe Miss Gillars as a willing and highly paid propagandist for the Nazis, and one who had done her insinuating best to undermine the morale of U.S. troops in Africa and Italy. The jury could be forgiven for keeping its eyes dry through her courtroom performance...
...until his regular midweek press conference did Acheson give the full U.S. answer. Relaxed and smiling, he dissected Stalin's offer point by point. Acheson's rebuttal was well-reasoned, neatly phrased, loftily scornful. Logically and morally, the honors were his, even if his words lacked a propagandist's simplicity and fire...
When the American Army drove the Germans out of Italy in 1945, it took among other prisoners Ezra Pound, expatriate poet, radio propagandist for Mussolini and self-made pundit who thought Hitler a "martyr" comparable to Joan of Arc. After a short stay in a prison camp near Pisa, where he continued to write poetry, the aging (63), rheumy-eyed poet was brought back to the U.S. to face treason charges. The case never came to trial; instead he was declared insane, and still languishes in St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington...
...Communists. He wrote: "I doubt whether in any other country in the world, even Hitler's Germany, thought be less free, more bowed down, more fearful, more vassalized." The faithful, who had seen Gide treated like a hero, were now instructed to regard him as vermin. Soviet Propagandist Ilya Ehrenburg, who had led the cheering section for Gide, now denounced him as a "wicked...
Married. Andre Malraux, 52, onetime Marxist novelist (Man's Hope, Man's Fate), now No. 1 political theorist and propagandist for Charles de Gaulle; and Madeleine Jeanne Lioux Malraux, thirtyish, pretty widow of his halfbrother, Roland, a Resistance hero who died in a Nazi concentration camp; each for the second time; in Riquewihr, Alsace...