Word: propaganda
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soldier in war is so surrounded with a blanket of discipline, fatigue, propaganda, and lack of knowledge of the events, that his great bravery becomes somewhat of a second nature. The person who stands out now against the call of bearing war drums for American involvement in this European war also deserves great credit for bravery. Just in the past year or so has America for given those who stood against entry into the last war. Here and there a professor who was flared as "yellow" or a "traitor" between 1916-1918 is now being rehired. In the last year...
...Europe's propaganda* war the Germans have, as might have been expected, come out second best. They often handle the art of communication clumsily. In War II, when they have not been caught stupidly lying-as when they insisted the Ark Royal had been sunk, even though a U. S. naval attache lunched aboard her and found differently-they have artlessly suppressed information which would on the whole have done their cause good rather than harm. Last week Germany had yet to admit the loss of even one submarine in seven weeks' warfare...
...straight truth is not the only instrument of propaganda that the British use. Their statesmen happen to possess a grade of literary finesse surpassed by no ruling group in the world today, and one in particular has contrived to bring to the Foreign Office publications the quality of the bestseller...
...make German ears tingle, Britain's BBC thrice daily broadcasts reproachful propaganda in German. Daily the Reich's radio warriors retort in English. Sample of Nazi frightfulness...
Most yeomanly English novelist since Galsworthy, Sir Hugh Walpole was finishing a long Elizabethan adventure story "to keep myself quiet." He was also doing semi-official propaganda work. Said he: "Because people realize the futility of war much more fully than in 1918, the result may be some new sort of realistic idealism...