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Boncevich N. N. American Domestic Information Campaigns, 1946–1950. Izvestiya of Saratov University. History. International Relations, 2009, vol. 9, iss. 1, pp. 55-60. DOI: 10.18500/1819-4907-2009-9-1-55-60
American Domestic Information Campaigns, 1946–1950
One of the controversial issues in the American cold war studies still remains problem of public opinion importance for the government in its foreign policies making. Historians try to seek answer on the question: was it really so important for the American government to have people’s support of its foreign policy or it was just trying to have good image of themselves in public opinion, or may be something else? The author of this article makes an attempt to answer this question through domestic information campaigns of 1946-1950 analysis. Documents from the subject files of the Office of the Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, Files of director of Public Affairs for the Department of State Francis H. Russell are kept in the National Archives and Records Administration, contain data which could shed a light on those processes in the postwar America relating institutional changes in the information agencies and growing government’s commitment to the domestic information control.
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- Address made off the Record before the American Society of Newspaper Editors by the Honorable Dean Acheson, Acting Secretary of State, Washington DC, 18 April 1947, box 10, folder: Secretary – Speaking 1946–1952, ASSPA.
- Russell to Schwinn, 4 January 1950, box 7, folder: Planning Operations, Domestic and Overseas Information Programs, 1949–1950, ASSPA.