Word: propaganda
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...disarmament proposal was "a pure propaganda maneuver," then it is apparently too bad we did not think of it first. It may be worse than just too bad, if we, as you have done, attempt to sneer at it or to laugh it off as impractical...
...Communists spent well over $100 million this past summer in their global attempt to create, and win, a new social class of "Youth." The World Youth Festival did not succeed in this, however, for as a propaganda instrument it was blunted by the independent efforts of Western student groups, and in particular by American participants working within the Festival. But the Soviet did not fail with all of the 20,000 "youth" who arrived in Vienna for 10 days of rallies, cultural events, slogans, and seminars...
...hope of presenting a clear American viewpoint, and the curiosity to see first hand how the Soviets would run a show for 20,000. The objectives were twofold: to counter the Communist party line directed at festival participants, and to provide material opposed to the Communist's flood of propaganda both during and after the Festival...
...Laborites made some election propaganda out of the scandal, but much more than politics was involved. Whichever party wins, the case has made it virtually certain that the next Parliament will enact legislation, similar to that in the U.S., to protect Britain's small investors...
...Yard moves closer to the killer, the script unfortunately moves closer to propaganda, repeats its brothers-under-the-skin theme so often that the point is blunted. Sapphire is a novel mystery that pulls no punches, but it would have been even better if it had not started swinging with the left...