Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Political & Security Committee went issues like George Marshall's proposals for a year-round "Little Assembly," the veto, and independence for Korea, and Andrei Vishinsky's demand for measures "against propaganda and the inciters of a new war." Last week the committee waded into the U.S. motion to charge Yugoslavia, Albania and Bulgaria with threatening Greece, and to send an Assembly peace-watch to the Balkans. Cried Andrei Gromyko in good voice: "A Fascist clique is hatching plans...
Last week the U.S. Communist Party itself threw boulders across the track. It cooked up a ludicrous counter-propaganda scheme. The Commies could hardly come out and say they were against the Bill of Rights and the Constitution. Nor could they attack such backers of the train as Phil Murray, Bill Green or the Girl Scouts. So, in a memo from the party's educational headquarters, district leaders were instructed to tell whoever would listen that the "key backers" of the Freedom Train are "reactionary big businessmen" with a "demagogic purpose." Leaders were told to organize tours through...
...Under the Republicans, Wall Street ran America; under the present administration, Wall Street is all set to run the world. . . . The war-with-Russia hysteria is a propaganda weapon of reactionary capitalism. . . . Let us face the fact that our crises are not brought on by the Communists. The people responsible for high prices, high rents and growing insecurity are the monopoly capitalists and their political errand-boys...
Thanks to anti-cancer propaganda, the public is becoming aware of the importance of prompt examination (the proportion of cancer patients who now delay going to a doctor-32%-is much smaller than surveys showed nine years ago). But doctors seem to be even less alert. The Memorial Hospital experts conclude: "The patient is seeking help earlier but the physician does not appear to be taking advantage of the opportunity...
...Playwright Emmet Lavery and Producer Martin Gosch, who charged libel and slander. Mrs. Rogers' remarks in a radio debate (with Lavery) on Communism in Hollywood, complained the suers, suggested that Lavery's play-to-be, The Gentleman from Athens, was un-American propaganda. One dismaying result, according to Gosch: five of the play's nine prospective backers suddenly backed...