Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...danger to peace and security." As mild in manner, Bevin was even rougher in words. In Greece, he said, Britain "could have done as was done in Rumania by Mr. Vishinsky-put in a minority government. . . . The danger to the peace of the world has been the incessant propaganda from Moscow against the British Commonwealth and the incessant utilization of the Communist Parties in every country in the world as a means to attack the British...
...peace was not to be made at a party. This week they came back to the Council forge to hammer out understanding. Vishinsky called Bevin's reference to Communist propaganda "a cold breath of the unhappy past." Bevin used the word "lie." Finally Russia offered to drop her demand for Council action if Britain would withdraw her troops from Greece as soon as possible...
...very friendly enemies, Cooper and Chancellor see eye to eye on such pressing postwar issues as free access to the news (which they loudly favor), and the right of the state to help tell the news (which they loudly deny). They hate subsidies, bias and propaganda, all three of which haunt Reuters' past...
Most rankling of all is the war record of the Dutch army in Java. Built into a formidable myth by misleading propaganda, it yielded quickly to the Japanese. Now Indonesian papers fling taunting jibes like: "We pitied the Dutch when the victorious Jap hordes sent Dutch soldiers fearfully fleeing in sarongs and pajamas or underwear, hurriedly throwing their equipment away...
Writing in the Atlantic Monthly in May, 1941, way back when, Archibald MacLeish pointed to the dangers facing American higher education, using the University as an example: "Harvard, for all its history, is endangered as are other universities by a European political revolution which attempts to substitute propaganda for science and mob emotion for disciplined thought: a revolution which would, if it could, grind Harvard with Yale and Princeton and Chicago and Pennsylvania and Stanford and the rest into the rubbish which was once the University of Prague and the University of Heidelberg and the University of Bonn...