Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mission from Britain. At first the outside world heard chiefly the reverberations of the Tito-Mihailovich clashes. In London and Washington the facts of the Yugoslav resistance were obscured in a game of propaganda hide-and-seek. King Peter's men, through ignorance or fear, or both, would not acknowledge the existence of the Communist leader of the Partisans. They controlled the channels of news coming out of Yugoslavia to the Allied side. For two years the Allied public did not even hear of Tito...
...emotionalism usually buries the theme, here martial music and gaudy effect drive it home, and one is never allowed to forget that genuine patriotism was defeated by selfish individualism. That is the only idea that "Wilson" tries to convey. It never goes all the way and becomes bald internationalist propaganda, because it was not intended...
...hours later, the Goebbels propaganda machine began grinding. Shouted the German radio: "The occupation of the Reich by Americans and British would be as horrible as by the Bolsheviks. Morgenthau is outdoing Clemenceau. Clemenceau said there were 23,000,000 Germans too many-Morgenthau wants to see 43,000,000 Germans exterminated...
...Roosevelt feigned some reluctance in saying it, but there seemed to be something a bit "foreign" creeping into the campaign this year-a "propaganda technique invented by the dictators abroad." It was, he feared, a technique out of Mein Kampf; never tell a small lie, make it a fantastic whopper and keep repeating...
...Government last week dedicated "The loudest voice in the world"-the $1,500,000 short-wave transmitters, near Cincinnati, built by the Crosley Corp. for the Government to make the "Voice of America" heard anywhere in Europe, Africa, South America. Designed to compete with Axis propaganda, the three transmitters (up to 200 kilowatts) are probably the most powerful ever built. Private industry despairs of running them at a profit after the war, but the Government may have enough to say to the rest of the world to keep them from rusting...