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...week for the Argentine Foreign Office both the British and German Ambassadors crossed their hearts on paper to tone their propaganda down. Intoned Britain's Sir Esmond Ovey: "His Majesty's Government desire nothing other than to cooperate with the [Argentine] Government in whatever action tends to suppress factors of public intranquillity...
...Nazis all Europe's eternal tat-tat-tat-tooing was foolish and exasperating. First the Nazis tried to suppress or ignore it. Growled Norway's Quisling Propaganda Minister Gudbrand Lunde: "Don't think you will win the war by making silly noises in restaurants." In France 6,000 people were arrested for distributing paper Vs. Then Germany's Propaganda Chief Paul Joseph Goebbels had what he thought was a bright idea, or perhaps it was given to him by a visiting friend. Italy's Popular Culture Minister Alessandro Pavolini, who was also on the receiving...
...impairing the purity of the German vocabulary by importing a foreign word, for the native German word for victory is Sieg. Germans were urged to use the symbol. In rendering this decision Dr. Goebbels made a mistake: since the V-sign was no longer verboten, the Germans could not suppress...
...usual the Italians could not suppress their excitement. Rome radio vaunted: "Three million tons of goods and one million men have been carried by Italian ships across the Mediterranean in the last two months...
...London it now looks as if the British Ministry of Information may eventually live up to its name-by an effective effort to give out instead of suppress information. To London newsmen-U.S. correspondents above all-this unexpected, startling, and almost miraculous change ranks with the major news...