Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...another Communist tactic General Marshall came close to open anger: "I wish to state to the American people that in the deliberate misrepresentation and abuse of the action, policies and purposes of our Government, [Communist] propaganda has been without regard for the truth, without any regard whatsoever for the facts, and has given plain evidence of a determined purpose to mislead the Chinese people and the world and to arouse a bitter hatred of Americans...
Welles. Before taking issue with Larreta, Welles made it plain that he had not lost any part of his faith in the Pan-American system he helped to build. "We would be unduly ingenuous," he said, "if we were overimpressed by the propaganda which is reaching our shores in ever-increasing volume, and which is designed to persuade us that our accomplishments are negligible, that our system is intended merely to benefit the strong at the expense of the weak, and that our form of Western democracy is an outmoded relic of a decadent past...
...voice of Britain, he channeled radio propaganda to German workers for the British Broadcasting Company...
...Paris Conference proved that open covenants could not be openly arrived at this side of eternity, because delegates spoke for home consumption and would not make concessions in the open. It also demonstrated some more important points: 1) that the West could find propaganda answers to Russian propaganda; 2) that Byrnes had been right in his insistence that the small nations be heard, and 3) that Byrnes could be just as stubborn as Molotov. The Paris Conference was boring, but it marked the turning of the Russian tide. That "quack, quack" turned out to be the voice of history...
...Coupled with his dislike and distrust of anything military was his resistance toward compulsory education. The average American, brought up in perhaps the closest knit individualistic environment in the world, doesn't like to be told anything. Rabble rousers and the Hearst press can fool him easily with sly propaganda, but direct instruction, though conducted with the finest intentions, leaves him cold and unaffected. In effect, the Army was trying to break a bad American habit by one hour of orientation a week...