Word: propaganda
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Seaforth Highlander lieutenant who was convicted in 1933 of selling military secrets and imprisoned in the Tower of London until 1937, when good behavior ended his five-year sentence and he exiled himself from Great Britain. The London Evening News stated positively last month that Baillie-Stewart was broadcasting propaganda in English from a German station...
...Luxembourg barred nonresidents from a triangle between Remich, Modorf and Schengen in her southeast corner. She shut down her big radio station, lest she be blamed for propaganda broadcast by others on its wave length, and banned the playing of radios and phonographs in public. On All Saints' Day, the Grand Ducal Army (1,000 men, plus 350 recruits and 200 gendarmes) paraded in review in its new khaki uniforms, with helmets like the old Austrian Army. Said its commander: "This is quite a change from our old army in lollipop uniforms." The pre-World War uniform...
...snuff are Great Britain's methods of putting her cause in its best light to the rest of the world. While the Germans stumble around with the horse-&-buggy propaganda technique of simple name-calling (Britain's diplomacy is "perfidious"; Churchill a "warmonger"), the British have developed a streamlined method which generally appears merely to put the clear eye of psychology on their foes. The British have so far branded Mr. Hitler nothing much worse than an interesting nut, the Germans as the victims of mass delusion. Last week the German and British methods met head...
According to a recent German official broadcast, "British atrocities" during the Boer War some 40 years ago included mixing powdered glass in the food of Boer children penned in British prison camps. Last week His Majesty's Government cited "this shameless propaganda, which is wholly without foundation" as its reason for suddenly rebutting with much hotter and much fresher atrocity charges. Off official London presses rolled another White Paper, entitled Papers Concerning the Treatment of German Nationals in Germany, 1938-1939. It was filled with details of torture and sadism in contemporary Nazi prison camps...
...dozen learned professors sitting trembling on the wet trouser leg of facts. . . . Oh-and he must be a bachelor. Then we shall get the women. . . ." They study the man at the other table, then call out to him: "HITLER! HITLER! . . ." Such was the opening this week of a new propaganda serial staged by British Broadcasting Corp. Its name: The Shadow of the Swastika. Its story: the careers of the Nazi bully boys from beer hall to the rape of Poland...