THE GOVERNMENT: Propaganda Glossary

Last year Utopian Economist Stuart Chase, having discovered the 16-year-old science of semantics (the study of meanings), rushed off to write a book, The Tyranny of Words, whose point was in substance that if everybody used the right words, all misunderstandings and muddled thinking would evaporate and many of the world's ills would be cured. Last week Stuart Chase was again discovered playing his word game.

The New York Times's Arthur Krock laid alarmed hands on a little typewritten document by Stuart Chase. It was called Preliminary Suggestions for Standardizing Terminology, or...

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