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The Public Diplomacy Blog is intended to stimulate dialog among scholars, researchers, practitioners and professionals from around the world in the public diplomacy sphere. The opinions represented here are the authors' own and do not necessarily reflect the views of the USC Center on Public Diplomacy at the Annenberg School.

Posts by Nicholas J. Cull

1956 ALL THAT … U. S. PUBLIC DIPLOMACY AND KHRUSHCHEV’S SECRET SPEECH
MAR 30, 2006 - 1:50AM PDT
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"[T]hrough the press section of USIS that the Communist parties themselves represented at the Moscow Congress have come to know one of the most serious and dramatic documents in the Communist literature of the world."

--Pietro Nenni, Secretary General, Italian Socialist Party, 1957

Given coincidence of the current on-going debate over the future of US public diplomacy and the fiftieth anniversary of Khrushchev's denunciation of Stalin, it is a good moment to note the role that the organs of US public diplomacy played in heightening the impact of the speech around the world. The case is yet another set piece... FULL TEXT

THE GHOST UNDER THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE
MAR 30, 2006 - 1:45AM PDT
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Via National Geographic

This week workers at the Brooklyn Bridge chanced upon a forgotten room containing supplies stockpiled against a nuclear attack. Dates on the materials were evocative: 1957 - the year of Sputnik; 1962 - the year of the Cuban missile crisis. This discovery is an oddly evocative interruption from the high point last long war into what future historians will doubtless see as the opening phase of the era-defining conflict. It is like a ghost in a Shakespeare play -- reminding us of just how bleak things were in the era of Sputnik and the Cuban missile crisis, and how different... FULL TEXT

PENN KEMBLE, PUBLIC DIPLOMAT
FEB 23, 2006 - 3:36PM PDT
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Penn Kemble: Public Diplomat, political campaigner and international pro-democracy activist

Penn Kemble was, for thirty years an enduring presence behind the scenes of Democrat Party politics and foreign policy in the United States. Dedicated to the causes of labour and the promotion of democracy around the world. A Cold Warrior, in the 1980s he won notoriety for his support for the Contra rebels in Nicaragua. His entry into the Clinton administration in 1993 was widely interpreted as an augury of that President's commitment to ending the other Cold War: that between the hawks and doves in his own party. His... FULL TEXT
 
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