• BBC journalist Leonard Miall worked on psychological warfare in New York and San Francisco with the Political Warfare Executive during World War II?

Facts on topics related to Political Warfare Executive

Propaganda

• battle for trade was a phrase introduced by Polish communist propaganda for the nationalization of private sector shops?
• Vern Partlow's satirical song "Old Man Atom" was a hit record in the U.S. in July 1950, but a month later it was removed from store shelves for allegedly containing pro-communist propaganda?
• Willi Münzenberg (1889–1940) was known as "The Red Millionaire" because he combined high living with communist propaganda?
• due to its economic growth, Taiwan served as a showcase for Japan's propaganda on the colonial efforts throughout Asia, as displayed during the 1935 Taiwan Exposition?
• the Dravidian parties extensively used Tamil cinema for their propaganda?
• the K-1000 class was a hoax class of battleship made up by the Soviet Union at the start of the Cold War as propaganda?
• the Malmédy Massacre Trial is often used in extreme right-wing German propaganda?
• the Squander Bug was a propaganda character created to encourage saving in the United Kingdom during World War II?
• the government of Kenya named the 1963-67 secessionist Shifta War after "shiftas", the local word for "bandit", as part of a propaganda initiative?
• the movie I Am Cuba was filmed in 1964 as Cold War Soviet propaganda but only became widely viewed internationally when it was shown to audiences in the United States in 1994?

1941

• DC Comics sued Fawcett Comics in 1941 over Fawcett's Captain Marvel being a Superman rip-off, and the resulting National Comics Publications v. Fawcett Publications lawsuit took thirteen years to settle?
• Delta Sigma Theta Sorority founder Myra Hemmings starred, co-produced and co-directed the 1941 film Go Down, Death! The Story Of Jesus and the Devil?
• American Jesuit priest Walter Ciszek was imprisioned by the Soviet Union between 1941 and 1963, and sentenced to 15 years hard labor, six of which were spent in Moscow's infamous Lubyanka prison?
• Gordon Canfield is remembered as the "Father of the United States Coast Guard Reserve" because he first introduced and spearheaded the legislation for the reserve component's creation in 1941?
• Igo Sym, one of the most popular actors of interbellum Poland, was executed in 1941 by the Polish resistance for cooperating with German occupiers?
• Israfil Mamedov, the first Azeri Hero of the Soviet Union, killed about seventy Germans, including three officers, during the Battle of Moscow on December 3, 1941?
• Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb led the successful German assault on Leningrad in 1941, but was relieved of duty by a distrustful Hitler?
• Kabloona (1941) is a classic account of a Frenchman's life among Canadian Inuit?
• the American Thanksgiving holiday was moved a week earlier from 1939—1941 because of The Great Depression and was referred to as Franksgiving after President Franklin D. Roosevelt?
• the Pensacola Convoy, which in 1941 carried the first United States soldiers to be based in Australia, was planned initially to reinforce Allied forces defending the Philippines?

Hitler

• in 1933, the German Socialist Labour Party of Poland supported the Bundist call for boycott of goods produced in Germany, in protest of the Hitler regime?