Word: propaganda
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...should like to take exception to Mr. Cohen's statement in Wednesday's CRIMSON that "Mussolini is conducting in this country propaganda foreign to our ideals." Being an Italian-American and in favor of the Fascist movement in Italy I have become nauseated with the repeated gibes and attacks made against a friendly nation without palpable proofs of any kind. I am led to think that those who utter such flimsy assertions act either through malice or dark ignorance...
Personally I have never been approached by anyone who is disseminating this so-called Fascist propaganda, nor have those Italian-American acquaintances of mine who are violently anti-Fascist ever complained to me that the Black Shirts are attempting to overthrow or degrade the pure ideals cherished by Mr. Cohen and his American associates...
Consequently I defy Mr. Cohen to produce any evidence of Fascist propaganda existing in or about Boston. As far as Bolshevist propaganda is concerned I should advise Mr. Cohen to be present at the meetings held by the Bolshevist party on Sunday afternoon at the Boston Common during the summer and during fall: it is there that he will hear revolution preached against the existing government in the U. S. by men whose ideals are utterly un-American...
...recognizing the Soviet Union, first the failure of the Soviet government to acknowledge the debts of preceding governments, second, the unwillingness of the Russian government to restore or make compensation for confiscated property of American citizens, and third, the alleged participation of the Russian government in propaganda conducted in foreign slates by the Third International. In not exposing these reasons as the shallow mockeries they are, Professor Baxter is guilty of almost criminal negligence. The first is an attempt to make the Soviets appear a group of irresponsible brigands with whom orderly intercourse is impossible; as a matter of fact...
...deflation. National City had formed General Sugars, Inc., to take and operate over 3,250,000 acres, a $30,000,000 investment. To the United States Sugar Association's low-duty lobby fund, Mr. Rentschler's bank had contributed $10,000, had spent $200,000 per year on monthly propaganda sent to 300,000 persons...