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Word: propaganda (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Strength for Propaganda. The man who started the crusade in Trouillas is a wispy little bus driver named Joseph Fabrégas. Ever since World War I, Fabrégas had been thinking about Gandhi and world peace. After Gandhi was murdered, he began thinking about Garry Davis, self-proclaimed citizen of the world, whose movement began to mushroom last year in Paris. Fabrégas kept saying to his passengers: "Some people go on hunger strikes to demonstrate their love of peace. We in the Garry Davis movement eat well and drink well and use the resulting strength...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WORLD GOVERNMENT: Maybe That's What We Need | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

Willie Gallacher, one of the two Communist members of the House, called this "evil, lying, propaganda" and quoted the New Testament in support of his case. He blamed the stoning of Stephen and the crucifixion of Christ on what he called "the attorney generals" of that day. David Gilbert Logan of Liverpool interrupted to assert that the persecutors of Christ and Stephen were "proper Communist gangs." Outraged members wanted to shut off Willie's blasphemy, but the speaker ruled regretfully: "I do not think there is any rule which makes it out of order, but I must...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Solidarity Does It | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

...suggestion that the Chinese Communists might break with Moscow is insidious propaganda, designed to confuse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: A Few Truths | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

...full of clichés and stock characters who eventually see the error of communism. By the last reel, there are hardly enough cell members left to stir up a rumpus in a tea cozy. The picture might get by if it were either good entertainment or good propaganda, but it is inept on both counts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jul. 18, 1949 | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

...pretentiousness. Its final, most brassy explosion: an enormous, foreshortened view of Gary Cooper-presumably a hulking symbol of rugged individualism -straddling the topmost scaffolding of his new skyscraper. Apparently aimed at Communist and other critics of the American way, Fountainhead will provide some of the corniest grist for Soviet propaganda mills that Hollywood has produced in a long time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 11, 1949 | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

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