Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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National Home. For half a century before that, Weizmann was Zionism. His vibrant, eloquent voice, lowered for emphasis, cutting deftly through details to the essential, was one of the greatest one-man propaganda instruments in history. He turned even his genius for chemistry into a weapon for Zionism. In 1916, when British shells began falling short of the target for want of acetone, a basic component in manufacturing gunpowder, Weizmann, working night & day, discovered a new way of producing acetone in quantity. Gratefully, wartime Prime Minister David Lloyd George proffered personal honors; Weizmann graciously declined and said: "There is nothing...
...more news out, military men have been afflicted with what NATO Secretary General Lord Ismay called a "secrecy phobia." Correspondents also complain that incoming SHAPE officers have no idea of 1) how to deal with the press, and 2) how to use NATO news to counteract Communist propaganda...
...print a map of them. Newsmen were refused information on a new headquarters building, though details of the building's vital "war room" were printed in the Communist papers. They had picked up the information from workmen. The blackout on news has also prevented SHAPE from counteracting propaganda from Moscow. When Malenkov recently took a backhanded slap at SHAPE by saying Russia's armed forces were no bigger than in 1939, NATO officials refused to comment to newsmen. Not until a month later, when the matter was no longer in the news, did Lord, Ismay say weakly...
...crotchety, peevish, less productive as the '30s passed. But World War II sent her into an enraged flurry of writing: she had "enlisted for the duration." No one knew better than Edna Millay what poor stuff it was. Of Make Bright the Arrows she wrote: "A piece of propaganda, acres of bad poetry." She was sure that no matter what else she might do, "lovers of pure poetry . . . will . . . never forgive me for writing this book." She wrote a lot more "duration" poetry, and the last year of the war she paid with a breakdown...
George Fischer, former director of the Ford Foundation's East European Fund and a student in Russia for 11 years before World War II, says in his "Soviet Opposition to Stalin": "At present the U.S.S.R. is far better geared, not only militarily but also geographically and propaganda-wise than it was against the German surprise attack...