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Digesting the State Department
Allan, Richard | May 13, 1944 issue

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The article focuses on the relations between the periodical Reader's Digest and the U.S. State Department. The Digest played up prominently a story by the U.S. Senator Hugh Butler of Nebraska attacking the Good Neighbor policy in terms of dollars and cents. The periodical had angered the State Department at a time when State Department friendship could be very useful. The Digest was pushing half a dozen foreign-language editions into new markets all over the globe and just to certify the harmony process, the Digest now has played its show-piece. There are signs that certain passages already have turned State Department countenances a mild pink.

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READER'S Digest (Periodical); BUTLER, Hugh; LATIN America -- Foreign relations -- United States; NEBRASKA; LATIN America; UNITED States
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