Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...forced to accept an imposed peace, now sought by the Communist powers as it was by Hitler." Free men can have such a peace, he said, only if they will cooperate: "It is not a question of turning the press, radio, television and newsreels into media of sugar-coated propaganda, 'selling' America to the Frenchman, France to the German, and Britain to the American. It is quite different from that . . . For understanding, we need the facts and the perspective within which they fit ... Free men do not lose their patience, their courage, their faith because the obstacles...
...dangerous capitulation, highly risky from both a military and a political point of view. For any such settlement would mean de facto recognition of the Communist Viet-Minh government, which has previously been only an outlawed guerilla band. A move of this kind would give tremendous impteus to Communist propaganda throughout Asia, and it would immeasurably increase the prestige of Red China as the self-styled protectors of Asian nationalism. Equally important are the military considerations. Unchecked by any external authority, the Viet-Minh could arm again to cross the border and resume the war at will...
Harris, an expert on medical organization, last week told a Senate health subcommittee that expanded medical insurance programs are badly needed, and that "the polls show a much greater enthusiasm for improved medical organization than is evident to the average citizen, the victim of the A.M.A. propaganda...
Reischauer also believed that there may be a lull in activity in Indochina, due to the conference at Geneva. "It would be bad propaganda-wise, for the Communists to continue fighting while their delegates are sitting at a conference table," he said...
Henry Koerner came to the U.S. 16 years ago, a refugee from the Nazi pogroms in his native Vienna. He designed propaganda posters for the OWI and OSS during World War II, soon afterwards earned his present reputation as one of the nation's most thoughtful and skillful painters. His first fame rested on pictures just this side of surrealism: a barber treating a bearded customer to a violin concert, children sledding on tailors' dummies, a pregnant girl trapped in a jungle gym. What gave weight to their gloomy wit was the exactitude of Koerner's observation...