Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ever since 1943, when the Berlin radio charged that the Russians had murdered thousands of Polish officers in the Katyn (rhymes with sateen) Forest near Smolensk, all Communists and many non-Communists have dismissed the accusation as Nazi propaganda. Nine months ago, however, a special committee of the House of Representatives headed by Indiana's Democratic Ray Madden launched its own investigation of the Katyn massacres (TIME, Nov. 26). Last week, after questioning witnesses in the U.S., Britain...
Waking up at last to an opportunity that had been knocking loudly for weeks, the U.S. responded to Soviet Russia's vitriolic germ-warfare propaganda. The U.N. Security Council took up a U.S. resolution proposing an on-the-spot International Red Cross investigation of Communist charges that the U.N. forces had waged germ warfare in Korea. U.S. Delegate Ernest Gross challenged: "If what we say about the campaign of hate is not true, the Soviet government can show us up [with] ... an impartial investigation...
...demand the unconditional exchange of all "foreign" (non-Korean) prisoners. Nevertheless, they asked for a one-day recess to study the U.N. proposal, then for executive sessions to shield "realistic discussions." The U.N. agreed. A U.N. briefing officer told newsmen that the private proceedings were noticeably free of propaganda tirades...
...Hewlett Johnson, the Red Dean of Canterbury, whose journeys usually leave a foamy wake of Communist propaganda, finished a tour of Red China with the announcement: "No longer can Christians reject the germ warfare stories as propaganda...
Liberated Genie. In a way, Mussolini set the stage for Italy's movie renaissance by building Cinecitta and granting state subsidies. But he also dictated the propaganda trash which was the industry's main prewar product. After liberation, Italy's democratic government resumed the subsidies. But Italy's able young film boss, Under Secretary of State Giulio Andreotti, 33, onetime journalist and underground fighter, wisely kept hands off the product. Result: such imaginative directors as Rossellini and Vittorio (The Bicycle Thief) De Sica had free play...