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...balance the equation. The successful management of the Pacific campaign and the efficient administration of Japan after V-J Day don't mean a thing. No, the irretrievable damnation of self-esteem outweighs whatever might be said for him. He likes to dress up too much; he is a propagandist; he thinks a lot of himself, like Teddy Roosevelt did. Come hell or Henry Wallace, we must have a humble man in the White House...
...minor journalistic coup. North American Newspaper Alliance crowed that on March 8 it would release (in the New York Times and 50 other papers) 18 excerpts from the wartime diaries of Paul Joseph Goebbels. Doubleday & Co., which had sold pieces of the Nazi propagandist's day-by-day jottings to the syndicate, had also scored a coup: Doubleday's 200,000-word version would be the Book-of-the-Month Club selection (700,000 copies...
...true political propagandist and poor sportsman, [he] ignores everything which fails to further his own perverted viewpoint...
Married. Elizabeth Kirkpatrick Billing, 53, jut-jawed, Red-chasing propagandist; and Jeremiah Stokes, 70, Mormon elder; each for the second time; in Chicago. Anti-Semitic Mrs. Dilling made her first big noise in 1934 with her finger-pointing book, The Red Network (among the "Reds" she discovered: William Allen White, Harry Emerson Fosdick, Eleanor Roosevelt), more recently starred in person as a defendant in the noisy 1944 Sedition Trial fiasco...
...more striking than the rumor's accuracy was the half apologetic, half-propagandist, wholly contradictory tone of Zhdanov's decree. Said he: "Currency reform in our country is radically different from currency reforms in capitalist countries. In the U.S.S.R. it is being carried out not at the expense of the people. . . . However, the reform demands certain sacrifices. The state is taking on itself the greater part of the sacrifice, but it is also necessary for the population to bear a part -all the more since it will be the last sacrifice...