Abstract EN:

When analyzing the propaganda strategies employed at the beginning of the Cold War, one useful starting point is the intervention of the United States in the Greek conflict. Indeed it was in order to "Save Greek Democracy" that Truman proposed his doctrine of intervention, thus inaugurating the pax americana. We shall now look at how this sort of rhetoric in the journalistic discourse served to structure political visions in France and England. Representations of the conflict were encoded in symbols of antagonism between the two blocs, and this had a federalizing effect in both countries. The press implemented a number of different propagandas, which allowed old identities to reassert themselves in the new world order. Meanwhile, political groups tried to find new reference points by reinventing old myths. Thus journalists in France and England interpreted the Greek conflict in light of the defining historical events of their nations.