Word: propagandas
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...fiercely anti-Semitic Ernst F.S. Hanfstaengl, Class of 1909, was not just another colorful rogue, as Grynbaum implies, but the Nazis’ foreign press chief, responsible for spreading the party’s propaganda abroad, and a longtime member of Hitler’s inner circle. He provided important financial support to the Nazi party during the 1920s. Shortly after Hitler assumed power, Hanfstaengl informed American diplomat James McDonald of the Nazis’ determination that the “Jews must be crushed.” Rabbi Joseph Shubow, who confronted Hanfstaengl in Harvard Yard, did not merely...
...wreath bearing a swastika in the University chapel, calling this Harvard’s recognition of the Hitler regime. Moreover, although British universities boycotted the “Nazified” University of Heidelberg’s anniversary celebration in 1936, Harvard chose to participate in this Hitler propaganda festival, at which top Nazi leaders delivered virulently anti-Semitic speeches. Albert Einstein would not attend the Harvard Tercentenary because Conant’s guest list included Nazis. Conant’s well-known reluctance to offer prominent refugee Jewish scholars faculty positions was motivated by his own anti-Semitism, expressed...
...dismayed by the falsifications and manipulations of truth contained in the Palestinian Solidarity Committee’s (PSC) advertisement, entitled, “Palestine in Brief,” which ran in The Crimson on April 26. Such distortions signal nothing less than the beginning of a malicious propaganda war aimed at slandering Israel...
...freedom, fascinating new directions, and incredible technological availability—or it could propel us towards a cultural apocalypse in which we all experience the world as pure cinema through transplanted computer chips. Naturally, the latter would be controlled by an evil cyborg named Rupert who feeds us propaganda from his control room in Beverly Hills. Take your pick...
...Western interference in their own "internal affairs," they are now going on the counterattack. In reply to the continued U.S. criticism of Soviet emigration policies and Reagan's recent rebukes of the oppressive nature of Soviet society, the Kremlin under Mikhail Gorbachev has taken the offensive with a rancorous propaganda drive. Its goal is to paint the U.S. as a nation teeming with human rights violations that run the gamut from unemployment to genocide. "They used to deal with human rights criticism by sitting in cold silence," says one senior Western diplomat in Moscow. "Now the new leadership are tough...