Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soon as Marshall had finished, the committeemen began. If State wanted to meet Communist propaganda, why didn't it kick out the Communists on its own payroll? One of the members read off a list of Department employees who were under direct FBI suspicion, but who had not yet been fired. They brought up the name of a secretary with access to confidential memoranda, who had been hobnobbing with local Reds and the Soviet Embassy staff for months. State's only action, they said, had been to call in the secretary, ask her if she was a Communist...
...days in Boston's federal district court, twelve jurors had sat and watched the thin, arrogant face of Traitor Douglas Chandler, the first man in U.S. history to be tried for giving "aid and comfort" to the enemy by broadcasting propaganda...
...heard nothing of him until 1941. Then, to an obbligato of fifes and clopping hoofs, the Berlin radio introduced him to its U.S. audience as "Paul Revere." During four years of war, Chandler's cultivated American voice spewed forth the propaganda line of Joseph Goebbels. He was known as America's Lord Haw-Haw. He was captured in 1945, brought home to stand trial...
Greek consular officials in the U.S. were fussed. Said one: "Very mysterious . . . extremely peculiar. . . ." Said another: "Anything is possible." In Athens, Foreign Minister Constantin Tsaldaris ordered an investigation. The Times speculated that the Greek senders might be victims of "an unfriendly ideology whose followers are spreading propaganda on the bad state of affairs in America...
...doing-many things. We can expose for all to see the shams and frauds behind which peoples are deprived of their liberty by little groups supported by foreign power. The methods have not changed basically since the days of Maximilian in Mexico, merely improved in organization, and brutality and propaganda techniques. But they dislike exposure, and it remains to be seen whether they can survive much longer than Maximilian did the withdrawal of the foreign bayonets...