Word: propaganda
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This is the first article in a series written by CRIMSON staff members who have made on-the-spot studies of American propaganda efforts on the continent...
...movies about the Marshall Plan aid, and runs a traveling agricultural exhibit supposed to convince French farmers that they could use a bright new ECA tractor. Other missions largely duplicate this pattern; all rely heavily on hand-outs to the local press for much of their publicity. Completing the propaganda facilities on our side are the various embassies, the United States Information Service, and the Voice of America...
...well-organized and financed Communist parties in almost every one of the Western countries. These parties, especially strong in France and Italy, are tightly organized on a ward-boss level; their newspapers have huge circulations. And so far, as the ECA poll shows, they have been winning the propaganda war with very little trouble...
...American propaganda agencies have been bungling badly. U. S. propaganda is aimed at the "more intelligent clements" in the various countries, although ECA in Italy has been making a genuine try to reach "the Italian in the street"; the Communists are steadily plugging away at farmers and factory workers...
...Western European governments, many of which contain strong Communist representation, have been afraid to let the U. S. propagandize as much as it wishes. The French government has appointed a special officer to make sure ECA's propaganda is carefully limited...