Word: propaganda
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Americans must not assume too lightly that Premier Khrushchev's disarmament proposal is "only propaganda." A tendency exists here, particularly in high governmental circles, to dismiss anything that emerges from Russian mouths as tainted and patently unacceptable. No one can object to care or even suspicion in considering Soviet proposals, especially with so much at stake, but in this case there is a strong chance that Khrushchev means business. If so, he must be taken seriously...
Julie Harris, as a lonely and homely woman seeking a husband in America's sunshine capital, is immensely appealing in the central role. But the play itself is a travesty, a trite rehash of travel-folder propaganda and True Love Confessions, with a heavy touch of Pamela. The problems the play poses and agonizes could be solved with a quick letter to Dear Abby...
...grandstand play, capitalizing mercilessly on the lurking fear of nuclear holocaust, Khrushchev's brash maneuver might win him some propaganda advantage with plain people around the world. And some U.S. officials continued to argue that Khrushchev genuinely wants some measure of disarmament, which would permit him to switch military manpower and funds into raising Soviet living standards. But in blasting off so crudely from his U.N. launching pad, Nikita had displayed a brute cynicism that repelled responsible statesmen everywhere. "It sounds so easy," said an Asian delegate to the U.N. "I think he must take us for morons...
...officers involved in the Mosul revolt had been executed by a firing squad. Four anti-Communist civilians condemned by Mahdawi's court were hanged the same day. But the Tabakchali trial had seemingly shaken at last Kassem's faith in Colonel Mahdawi and his court as useful propaganda instruments. The same broadcast that told of Tabakchali's execution announced that Mahdawi had left for a six-week trip to Peking. And after that, reported Baghdad's insiders, he would move on to Russia for medical treatment for another two months...
...Chinese Communists keep Peking's tiny complement of foreign correspondents (about 25) penned up like zoo animals, spoon-feed them a diet of propaganda seldom adulterated by truth. But now and then the tamest specimens, i.e., those with the staunchest Communist records, are led forth for a blinkered stroll around the compound. Last week 19 such journalists returned to Peking after a three-week tour of ravaged Tibet...