Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...must not make bogy-men of the Communists in this country. It is not the Communists themselves that we in this country should fear, for they are no more than 100,000 in number. All we need fear is our susceptibility to their propaganda...
This paradox, and the propaganda piffle which surrounded it, was bound to baffle almost anyone in or out of this world. Even such worldlings as the U.S. Embassy staff in Paris were confused-Ambassador Jefferson Caffery last week found it necessary to summon them all to a special briefing session. How could you explain the situation to a plain American, or a Frenchman-or to a man from Mars? The situation was really sublimely simple...
...tactic was old; international Communism had gone through three distinct phases of softening its militancy.† As early as last January, there were signs that the Red propaganda line would revert to "peace." Girding their loins for the Italian elections and the Marshall Plan battle. Communists meeting in Milan formed a "peace front" (TIME, Jan. 19), which in Palmiro Togliatti's words would "characterize Communist activity throughout the present historical phase" and would play on "the profound anguish which grips all classes at the very thought...
...book, utilizing incidents and characters already reported by the author in My Lives in Russia, bites more deeply into reality than the rest. Mrs. Fischer has realized the human meaning of separation and terror. But to dramatize humanity against inhumanity, while it may be the best possible counter propaganda for the present age, is not necessarily...
...theory: that the U.S. would withdraw support from Western Union in exchange for a Russian promise to muzzle Communist parties outside Russia and the satellite states. The other, more widespread-guess among Europe's startled statesmen was that the U.S. was merely trying to beat Moscow to a propaganda pedestal: we-love-peace-more-than-you-do. But when Washington finally got around to "clarifying" its action, it turned out that both these schools of thought had vastly overestimated Washington's foxiness...