Word: sloganism
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...internal debt of $80 billion, her external debt of more than $12 billion, and the enormous job of reconstruction and of reconquering markets which lies ahead, they want Government help and protection for their industries-which they know means Government planning and Government regulation. Free enterprise may be their slogan, but they demand help from their Government, and they expect help from it, even in technological matters...
General Charles de Gaulle looked at the bright new posters and found them good. They pictured Indo-China's blue skies, palm trees and temples as a backdrop for French tanks and jungle troops. Their slogan: "Yesterday Strasbourg, tomorrow Saigon! Join the French Expeditionary Forces of the Extreme Orient...
...Communist heels pressed the Socialists. The Mouvement de Libération Nationale, No. 1 Resistance group and strongly socialist in outlook, put up notices, also addressed to women: "Sign our petition for more food!" MLN strategists thought they had a sure vote-catcher in the "more food" slogan. French daily rations-1,200 calories-were still gravely below the health minimum. Cried the Paris Combat: "On the food problem the Government has succeeded in rallying unanimity . . . against the Government." The Toulouse Patriote reported that housewives were saying, "We ate better when the Germans were here...
...Autobahnen (express highways) enabled the Nazis to switch reserves quickly from one threatened spot to another. But the respite was only temporary. All along the Oder's east banks tremendous Russian forces were gathering like water behind a dam. German propagandists demanded a last-ditch stand, coined a slogan, "Victory or Siberia." Best bet: Siberia...
...touched on Britain's policy in Italy and Yugoslavia. He reviewed the course of the war in all theaters and reasserted the slogan of unconditional surrender. But the heart of his speech was his defense of his widely challenged policy in Greece...