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Show HOOVER LASHES AT PROPAGANDA WATERVILLE. Me., Nov. g (UP) Former President Herbert Hoover called upon defenders of freedom of speech and press today to intensify in-tensify the fight againat "the special spe-cial breed of cultivated untruth we call propaganda. Mr. Hoover spoke at Colby college on th 100th anniversary of the death of Elijah Parish Lovejoy, a abolitionist editor and minister and waa killed by a mob which attacked his newspaper plant at Alton. 111. "In th past 15 years," Mr. Hoover Hoo-ver said, "increasing darkneas ha descended upon free expression andi free criticism In the world. That light haa been put out in more than half the so-called clviliied earth." |