Word: propaganda
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which large Chinese communities have been built up in modern times by emigration from China. It is also the region which, in the abortive Japanese plan for 'Greater East Asia,' was to have been . . . included, together with China, in a bloc of states under Japanese hegemony. The propaganda against 'Anglo-America' which poured forth from Tokyo only five years ago has now been taken over, sometimes in identical phrases, by Communist China...
...Communist methods of subversive propaganda and intrigue, with the infiltration of armed bands, might have great success against weak or vacillating opposition in a region already full of disorder and unrest. This is the ideal mode of expansion for a nation which lacks real military strength, but can bring to bear politically the mass weight of a population of four hundred millions, the prestige of a traditional ascendancy and the glamour of a revolutionary gospel...
...Labor government had had its back to the ropes. Australians were plainly fed up with widening bureaucratic controls, gasoline rationing and high prices, creeping nationalization, hamstringing restrictions on private enterprise. Through the campaign Labor fought with feeble punches: Government orators warned that only Labor could maintain full employment; Labor propaganda included a "ticket" bearing a crossed pick & shovel and the slogan, "Express to the Golden Age." But Australia had been riding the express for eight years, had found no golden age, eaten no pie from...
...Strongly nationalist Western European countries have built up immunity to what they consider foreign propaganda. The Communists are accepted as politically legitimate within these countries, and do not have to meet this resistance...
From here on out, the propaganda situation in Europe looks poor. After a fine economic recovery, France is bogging down with strikes and shortages. So is Italy. There is an increasing feeling among ECA men that the only thing which can prop up fading Western European appreciation of the U. S. is more economic aid. Right now, the chances for this increased...