Word: propagandist
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...news from the occupied zone has been marked by muddling contradictions. The French declare that the resistance is weakening; then a counterstroke from the Germans persuades them of the unreality of their pretensions. The Germans, with characteristic obstinacy, are getting on with the job, and, with the exception of propagandist squeals, they are not worrying much about who has the upper hand. The truth is that neither side is weakening...
...think and weigh decisions for oneself; given both sides of a case, the final judgment, unless it comes from the student himself, is worthless both to the student and as a judgment. Spoon-fed minds can never be anything but a sop to the community. And, incidentally, the propagandists are defeating their own ends; for as soon as a counter-propagandist appears who can out-shout them, their converts, trained to be "followers". Carlylian "valets", are as liable as not to recant, and desert to the enemy...
...chooses the latter course, he must make a still further decision. He may become "an advocate of force, a propagandist with a knife between his teeth" or he may contest himself with the more peaceful but no less useful life of a philosopher or teacher. Both classes of this second division have as a common function, "a search for truth without fear or favor". The members of both must be willing to stand on their feet and say what they think. Under our present civilization, Mr. Nearing continued, an ever increasing specialization is tending to disrupt all cooperation between different...
...Commissioner of Accounts, Mr. Hirshfield, to conduct an inquiry on historical text-books. It is not now a super-idealization of our ancestors which is supposed to be a corrupt influence, but rather the interpretation of early American history from a violent pro-British or a treasonable pro-German propagandist standpoint...
Another interesting item is a full set of the "Gazette des Ardennes", the German propagandist paper published in the French language in the occupied regions of France. Various editions of this paper contain innumerable photographs showing German officers doing deeds of kindness to the civilian populations of Belgium and France caricatures representing British injustice to France, group pictures of Allied prisoners taken in Germany and other material designed to have an appropriate effect on French readers...