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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 14, No. 6. June 7, 1951

[Introduction]

page 7

In 1943 the Cominform met in Hungary, and M. Suslov, Propaganda Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, set out the technique which is the Peace Movement. Committees were to be organised, Peace to be fought for on a broad front with all classes and interests drawn in, petitions were to be used and the fight for national independence supported.

Along with these campaigns went the propaganda methods perfected by the Nazis: repetition, smear campaigns, abuse, high sounding emotive prose, emotional irrelevances, big name window dressing, etc.

The main campaigns are: The Stockholm Ban, the Atom Bomb Appeal, The Congresses, the Support of Colonial Independence, the Aggression Definition, the Banning of War Propaganda, and the most recently emphasised Five Power Pact.