Word: propaganda
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This year most Germans are not sending Christmas cards because Minister for Propaganda and Public Enlightenment Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels has requested that money which would be used on such cards be contributed to Nazi Winter Relief. To enable housewives to spice the traditional German Christmas puddings, cakes and cookies, the State last week released ginger, aniseed, vanilla and cinnamon for sale for the first time since World War II broke. Still withheld from Hausfrauen at any price are pepper, caraway, paprika. Nazi authorities urged the making of "eggless and butterless cookies...
Early this month the Nazi press in Germany trained its biggest propaganda guns on Foreign Minister Sandier, accusing him, among other things, of "pro-British" actions. But that was not what removed him. Long had Foreign Minister Sandier advocated fortifying, with Finnish cooperation, the strategic Aland Islands guarding the entrance to the Gulf of Bothnia. He especially urged it when Russia began her diplomatic pressure on Finland. Moreover, Mr. Sandier was the spokesman of those friends of Finland who believed that Scandinavian neutrality was indivisible...
...Russian troops the Kremlin High Command has thrown against the eastern side of the Karelian bottleneck are probably the most miserable-looking creatures to be seen in uniform in this part of Europe since Napoleon's half-starved soldiers straggled back from Moscow. This is not anti-Bolshevist propaganda, but hard fact...
...whole, the Conference speakers seemed eager to play down the role of propaganda in affecting the courses of history. The main influence of propaganda, it was generally felt, was in the realm, of education...
Definitions of the word 'propaganda" varied on specific points considerably. Some stated that it was anything written or spoken. Others declared propaganda was anything intended to get people to do or to refrain from doing something...