Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...radio-television commentary, the U.S. man in the street might well have believed that the U.S. suffered a stunning cold war defeat last week. The U.S., said the quidnuncs, had alienated "world opinion" by sending its troops into Lebanon. And Russia's Nikita Khrushchev had "scored a great propaganda victory" by offering to come to New York for a summit conference at the United Nations...
Unwilling to lend himself to propaganda circuses. De Gaulle had no enthusiasm for participating in a TV spectacular in Manhattan. He said that a summit meeting must be prepared with care, which would require time, and that since "the destiny of the Middle East affects in a direct manner that of all Europe," he proposed before any such meeting to "begin immediate consultations with other powers, notably European ones, which are interested." If Khrushchev wanted a special U.N. Security Council session, "considering, apparently, that the urgency of the questions relating to the Middle East has diminished," then such nations...
...overriding is the appeal of Arab unity, and so inflammatory is Cairo's radio propaganda, that Nasser probably has little need to spend vast sums on paid agents to keep things popping. He can often leave it to local plotters to do the dirty work-as he may have done in Iraq -providing them with arms, money and technical advice when needed. But Nasser is an inveterate instigator, and the plot against Jordan, which King Hussein broke up at the last moment by arresting 60 army men, was entirely directed from Cairo. Washington is pretty sure that Nasser...
...complete. So swiftly last week fell Iraq, long celebrated as the West's strongest Arab bastion in the Middle East. The details of this remarkable coup, whose success surprised even the plotters, became clear only little by little last week, as the facts were slowly disentangled from impassioned propaganda and confused accounts...
Most of the civilians are strong nationalists, anti-British. The Sorbonne-educated Minister of Guidance (Propaganda), a longtime Kubah colleague, worked with the Nazis during World War II. The Finance Minister, a graduate of the London School of Economics during Harold Laski's heyday, wants to nationalize the oil wells. The Minister of Public Works and Communications (Baba Ali), considered friendly to Americans, went to Columbia University...