Word: propaganda
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seizure of the Railway, last week, the Chinese Government announced dead the treaty negotiated by Marshal Chang Tso-lin in 1924 covering its joint operation by Russia and China. President Lu Yung-huang, unmuzzled at last, explained: "Since 1924, violations of the Treaty have been numerous. . . . Soviet Communist propaganda through . , . the railway is proved by documentary evidence seized in the recent raid of the Soviet Consulate at Harbin. We are constrained to take the present drastic measures to safeguard China's interests." Distinctly a threat was his conclusion: "If Russia resorts to retaliatory measures, China is prepared to deal effectively...
...Peking Foreign Minister C. T. Wang announced the end of all diplomatic relations between China and Soviet Russia. He eased off the threat of war thus: "We are not inimical to Soviet Russia. Positively we are not unfriendly. But we will not tolerate Soviet propaganda...
...schoolroom is not the proper theatre for religious, political or personal propaganda...
...conducted a mass and total Baptism in the Moscow River. Horrified the Soviet Working Moscow editorialized: "Right here in Moscow! With the All Union Atheist Convention just ended and the delegates not yet back home- with the Soviet Congress not a month ago having passed a resolution limiting religious propaganda-and what do we see? An incredible proceeding-a mass Baptism by a religious cult in the Moscow River- in the heart of the proletarian section of the city-under the very walls of the Triangle Brewery!! [Such things are] incredible! . . . Inexplicable! . . . Intolerable...
Prohibition. The conference was opened by N. E. A.'s President Uel Walter Lamkin. His message and plea: there should be no Federal dictation in educational matters. Thus, curtly, was dismissed the suggestion that all U. S. educators use Prohibition propaganda in their schools and text books (see p. 10). That Federal project had given N. E. A. members something new to think about. For years the N. E. A. has advocated the establishment of a U. S. Department of Education with a representative in the Cabinet. How much more likely, wondered observers, would the Government be to "dictate...