Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Britain and even France for help to his country during the war, and angrily denied that any love fest with the Cominform Communists was in sight. "On the frontier still," he said, "their rifles are shooting our guards. Their press is slandering us. If the U.S.S.R. has softened its propaganda, that is not enough for our country to change its attitude . . . Any changes must be demonstrated by deeds, not words." And what were Tito's own reassurances to the West? Also words...
...waifs of the political storms. Expatriate Songstress Josephine ("The U.S. is not a free country") Baker, with a basketful of orchids slung over her shoulder, warbled I'm Looking for an Old Friend. When she spotted one in Charlie ("I have been the object of lies and propaganda") Chaplin, she just had to dash over to his table and give him a great big kiss...
...freeing Associated Press Correspondent William Oatis, the Czech Communists put their best propaganda foot forward. Oatis was released, the Czechs announced, because of a pleading letter from his wife. Last week the White House gave out the true story. Two months ago, President Eisenhower wrote a letter to Czech President Antonin Zapotocky, pointing out that the U.S. would consider easing up the economic squeeze on Czechoslovakia only if Oatis was freed from his ten-year sentence on an espionage charge. Wrote Ike: "If your government will release Mr. Oatis . . . the United States Government . . . is prepared to negotiate . . . the issues arising...
...subtitled "the official organ of the Chinese Medical Association." Printed in English in Peking, the special issue is nothing but an assemblage of the Communist charges that the U.S. Air Force has waged germ warfare against North Korea and China. But this time, in an effort to camouflage their propaganda as "science," the Reds have persuaded five Western scientists to endorse their germ-war "evidence."The endorsement made a striking example of how five experts, each of high repute in his own field, can forget all about scientific method. The five: ANDREA ANDREEN (Sweden), biochemist...
...what's what in the world. The acting, most of it done by Cecil Parker and Celia Johnson, is as good as the rather uninspiring script allows, but the whole thing bogs down into a sentimental quagmire too often, and many of the characters and situations are trite. As propaganda, the picture does manage to bang over some not too subtle arguments about the treatment of offenders...