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Title: | North African Propaganda and the United States, 1946-1956 |
Author: | Perkins, Kenneth J. |
Year: | 1976 |
Periodical: | African Studies Review |
Volume: | 19 |
Issue: | 3 |
Period: | December |
Pages: | 65-77 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Maghreb United States |
Subjects: | propaganda international relations Politics and Government |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/523875 |
Abstract: | In 1945 few Americans demonstrated much awareness of Asian or African developments. When demonstrations against French control erupted throughout the Maghrib after VE day, a minority of Americans recognized that this region of French rule, but of intensely nationalist feelings, could become a serious trouble spot. During the next decade, leaders of the independence movements waged a campaign to familiarize Americans with the situation in their countries and gain support for their views on how Franco-Magribi problems could best be resolved. In outlining that campaign and discussing its strategy, this essay assesses the importance which North Africans attached to American sympathy, the methods which they utilized to attain it, and the results which they achieved. Notes; ref. |