Word: propaganda
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Friday, the United Nations Political and Security Committee listened to talk about plans for peace-one submitted by Russia and one by the United States and Britain. Then the Committee took a vote, deciding in favor of the western proposal. Both of the plans were apparently presented mainly for propaganda purposes and the odds are that the world will get no more peace than it had before the choice was made...
What would be the practical results of recognition? While it might conceivably strengthen would do so even more, not only driving the Chinese closer to Russia, but also giving the Soviets good Propaganda material to use on the natives of southeast Asia. The Russians would be eager to claim that non-recognition is proof that the United States only recognizes governments of whose polities it approves...
Pinky. The most skillful propaganda-entertainment to come out of Hollywood's current preoccupation with the plight of the U.S. Negro; starring Jeanne Crain (TIME...
...Hokah, Minn, got a chance to return home. But in 20 years of clerking at the American Embassy in Berlin, Herbert Burgman had acquired a German education, a German wife, a son-and an unbounded admiration for Adolf Hitler. He went to work for the Nazis, spouted radio propaganda at the U.S. on the program called "station D-E-B-U-N-K." He blamed Franklin D. Roosevelt and "his Jewish and Communistic pals" for World War II, promised that things would be better when he himself became President...
...Communist armies. A girl teacher with pigtails and hornrimmed glasses exhorted her audience shrilly: ". . . A bright new future is ours . . . let's give cheers to Chairman Mao and the new People's Republic . . ." When the applause was over, a mixed glee club took over with propaganda-packed songs: Sending off Sweethearts to the Front, Chiang's Reign Is All a Mess, and The Glorious New Five-Starred National Flag...