Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...adrift and disgruntled, the Mad Major developed a crush on Adolf Hitler and peddled Nazi propaganda in England. Later he repented and served, a tired old retread, in the Royal Navy. Last week, lonely, broke and 61, he made something of a comeback...
...moved to a small cell with seven other prisoners, all Chinese, where they were forced to discuss every detail of their past lives for hours on end, interspersing the discussions with interminable readings from Communist propaganda material. At intervals, a government official grilled Stockwell on his "crimes" and angrily ordered him back for further reflection when he denied them. Stockwell began to see that what the Communists wanted was not just a confession but a conversion-a new way of looking at the world. He decided to give them what they wanted and win his freedom...
...political science department signed a protest which they sent the school's president and the Minnesota Daily. In their statement the seventeen asserted that they had "faith in the capacity of the students to decide for themselves what ideas they wished to embrace. We feel confident that if the propaganda in the film were blatant then no one, especially the students would be duped by it." The protest was no official statement of the political science department. Only two of the signers held positions as high as associate professors--the rest were teaching fellows or research assistants. Instructor John Houbel...
They chose a plan which would be a lesson in counter propaganda. University officials latched onto the "Hoaxters", a lesson in Nazi methods of propaganda, and billed it along with "New China" for a showing on April...
After the hectic day Minnesota's Administrative Vice-President Malcolm Willy said "The showing of the "Hoaxters" in conjunction with "New China" might well have raised in the minds of its viewers question whether "the Hoaxters" is the best kind of propaganda film that could be devised."CHARLIE CHAPLIN...