Word: propaganda
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...purposes for which free speech was instituted and is now supported. Legally, these excesses cannot be prevented without imposing some sort of powerful censorship; and such censorship could not be applied by the government without destroying the liberty which can be so beneficial. Not prohibited by the law, propaganda creeps in and is accepted by many as an almost essential part of freedom of speech. Men may talk on paper-dolls and tin soldiers, but that cannot be set among the successful results of toleration...
...believe that the University authorities knowingly permitted open advocacy of the policies and principles of a government with which the United States is internally and externally at war. Although the apparent tacit approval of the University may be explained by inadvertence or lack of information concerning the insidiously subtle propaganda of the speaker involved, (who outdoes Mr. H. G. Wells in his own "rayon" in picturing the delights and perfection of Soviet Russia to which even such eminent, advocates of the cause as Miss Emma Goldman seem loath to return) we feel that it would be salutory to have those...
...first step in exorcising this Bolshevik demon in Harvard or anywhere else, is analysis. There is no purpose in attaching the odium of pro-Germanism, of insidious foreign propaganda, of bomb throwing, and of dark plotting to the man who is merely speculating as to governmental theory and practice or wondering about a line of decisions of our supreme court...
...eradicate it must come from us. If some little notice on our part were given to the West, such as taking the trouble to send a football team on a long tour, the West will not be slow in response. Such action could not bear the stigma of propaganda. It would be no more than healthy community interest...
...President, we need not remind you that the present government of Russia has repeatedly offered to cease its propaganda in return for peace. Do you consider that your present policy toward Russia has resulted in stamping out Bolshevism in the United States? It would be folly to believe that you entertain such an idea. The present policy of the United States toward Russia is a fruitful source of class discord. Laborers all over the country are protesting; they are being driven by your tactics to follow the lead of the railroad workers of France, England and Italy, who threatened...