Word: propaganda
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more tenable belief was that Andrei Zhdanov, press & propaganda chief, Heir-Apparent to the Stalin throne and political leader of the Leningrad district, was hipped on the subject of the defense of the Soviet Union's second largest city and managed to get Dictator Stalin alarmed too. In any case, whatever the causes or reasons, the U.S.S.R.'s grotesque impersonation of a bear being bitten by, a rabbit did the U.S.S.R.'s waning prestige and corroding ideals no worldwide good...
...baiting a la Dies," claimed proprietors of the Holyoke Bookshop in a sharp denial of charges made yesterday by City Councilor Mickey (The Dude) Sullivan to the effect that the 19 Dunster Street establishment is a red nest" and merely a "sham" through which Communist propaganda is being distributed to "unsuspecting students...
From the Continental come terse, dry bulletins issued by the Army General Staff, and cunning propaganda stories (of plots to restore the Kaiser, failure of German food supplies) concocted by Playwright Giraudoux himself. There, too, in sumptuous rooms that once housed U. S. tourists, censors sit poring over proofs of tomorrow's papers, ferreting out lines that might give information to the enemy...
...States bans and okays flew as thick as autumn leaves. By last week New Yorkers, Pennsylvanians and the citizens of Detroit, Mich, might see the picture. Ohioans, Virginians and the citizens of Chicago and Providence, R. I., emphatically might not. Reason: banning censors claimed the film was bare-faced propaganda tending to stir up national hatreds...
Those who saw the picture found it far less thrilling as propaganda than interesting as a clue to the mental aberration known as censor's mind. The film is a dullish cinematizing of Shephard Traube's weakish story, Goose Step, portraying the sufferings in a concentration camp of a group of anti-Nazis of no particular politics. Most of them are finally released. Their leader (Roland Drew) escapes with no more trouble than it takes to run across a field to a hay cart, finds it just as easy to rejoin his wife (Steffi Duna) in Switzerland...