Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...meant that U.S. tactics were shifting with events. The abortive efforts to mediate between irreconcilable forces had not only failed. They had been twisted into a convenient target for anti-U.S. propaganda, inspired to a large extent by the Left (see below). Having thus abandoned one impassable road to peace in China, the U.S. now looked to both Kuomintang and Communists to find their...
...Moscow's Bolshoi Theater. But when the official party arrived, the crowd's eyes turned from Lenin's benignly sly features to those of Premier Stalin. Inside, on the red-draped stage, Georgi Fiodorovich Alexandrov, chief of the Party Central Committee's Bureau of Propaganda and Agitation, delivered the memorial address...
Some Argentines were not happy about what they called "a tidal flow of holy water." La Prensa published part of a manifesto of the underground Italian "Fascist Democratic Party": "Our aim is to export Fascist elements to those countries that will listen to them in their propaganda for the fight now going on in Italy." Conceivably it referred to Argentina, a third of whose population is already Italian. Replied pro-Perón El Laborista: "Our doors are open to all men of good will...
...Entering the lobby I noticed displays of two books, That Man Frank Buchman and Ideas Have Legs, both by one Peter Howard. Near by were posted photographs of scenes from Oxford propaganda plays. One showed a merry group of people standing beside an immense cardboard barometer. They were registering CHANGE, the magic word of M.R.A. The head of the M.R.A. ten-man press corps came forward to meet me-a tall, eager, black-browed Englishman, Author Howard himself...
...much coached, perfected to the point where they seem artificial. ... At the same time, I found more good at Caux than critics had led me to expect. M.R.A. has cut away the theological language which repels the layman. If it falls into the inanities and dangers of mass propaganda, it does appreciate the need of using words that people can understand and respect...