Word: sloganism
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...German recovery caused Saarlanders to look wistfully across the Rhine. West Germans revived the old slogan, Deutsch ist die Saar (The Saar is German), and began talking of another Anschluss. Paris was horrified; the French government vowed that it would never ratify EDC and German rearmament until Bonn promised never to take back the Saar into a German Reich. France's main reason: with the Saar, which now produces 28% of France's coal and 25% of its steel, French heavy industry can compete with West Germany's Ruhr; without it, French production would be hopelessly outmatched...
With "Security to the Worker" as its slogan, the American Federation of Labor has launched another campaign to seize control of the Harvard University Employees Representative Association, Matthew L. McGrath of the AFL disclosed yesterday...
...Viet Nam. In March 1949, the French gave Bao Dai's state "independence within the framework of the French Union." In April, Bao Dai landed in Indo-China. "I risk my skin," said he, justifiably, for he got but little support. "COMMUNISM No-COLONIALISM NEVER" was the current slogan, and Bao Dai was widely held to be a French puppet. In time, some 200,000 Vietnamese came to join Bao Dai's army. But many more Vietnamese stayed away; they chose wait-and-seeism instead...
...defense force-and when the National Guard is outraged, Congress is sure to hear about it. Guard leaders on such occasions can be counted on to identify themselves with the original Minute Men, point with pride to their organization's long history, and cinch their argument with a slogan, e.g., "There will always be a National Guard." This week the slogans were falling like raindrops...
...probed out into the great, windswept Northwest. Their objective as such was not economic but strategic, i.e., to get direct new communications with Russia. To this end. the Communists relentlessly dragooned hundreds of thousands of peasants from their homes to the railroad sites. Soviet experts gave them an Orwellian slogan: "Work comes first. Time comes first. If time is lost, all is lost...