Hearts and Minds
Hearts and Minds may refer to:
Hearts and Diamonds (1914 film)
Hearts and Diamonds is a 1914 American silent short film directed by George D. Baker.
Hearts and Fists
Hearts and Fists is a 1926 American silent drama film directed by Lloyd Ingraham and starring John Bowers, Marguerite De La Motte and Alan Hale.
Winning hearts and minds
Winning hearts and minds is a concept occasionally expressed in the resolution of war, insurgency, and other conflicts, in which one side seeks to prevail not by the use of superior force, but by making emotional or intellectual appeals to sway supporters of the other side.
The use of the term" hearts and minds" to reference a method of bringing a subjugated population on side, was first used by Louis Hubert Gonzalve Lyautey( a French general and colonial administrator) as part of his strategy to counter the Black Flags rebellion along the Indochina- Chinese border in 1895.
More famously, it was used during the Malayan Emergency by the British who employed practices to keep the Malayans' trust and reduce a tendency to side with ethnic Chinese communists, in this case, by giving medical and food aid to the Malays and indigenous tribes.
Boris
Hembry, a member of the Federal War Council, recalled:" Although many believe the Americans to have coined the phrase[ winning hearts and minds] in Vietnam .., I maintain that those words were first used simply as a throw- away remark by[ Officer Administering Malaya] Del Tufoe( sic) while we were chatting informally prior to a Federal War Council meeting he chaired in November 1951 ... I repeated the phrase during the ensuing meeting".
According to another account:
A criticism at the time was that"[ t] here is much talk of fighting for" the hearts and minds" of Malayans, but only blind obedience is demanded of them".
During the 1960s, the United States engaged in a" Hearts and Minds" campaign in Vietnam.
The program was inspired by President Lyndon Baines Johnson.
He used some version of the phrase" hearts and minds" a total of 28 times.
In ten of these instances, Johnson inverted the words and used the phrase" minds and hearts."
The first time he used the phrase in his presidency was on 16 January 1964, and the last time was 19 August 1968.
In his usage he addressed very different audiences, including heads of state, congressmen, and the American people.
Also, Johnson referred to the" hearts and minds" of disparate groups, including the above- mentioned audiences and even humanity as a whole.
His use of the phrase is most commonly taken from the speech" Remarks at a Dinner Meeting of the Texas Electric Cooperatives, Inc." on 4 May 1965.
On that evening he said," So we must be ready to fight in Viet- Nam, but the ultimate victory will depend upon the hearts and the minds of the people who actually live out there.
By helping to bring them hope and electricity you are also striking a very important blow for the cause of freedom throughout the world."
A similar" Hearts and Minds" campaign in Iraq was carried out during the 2003 invasion and occupation of that country.
American use of the phrase is most likely based on a quote of John Adams, the American Revolutionary War patriot and second president of the United States, who wrote in a letter dated 13 February 1818:
" The Revolution was effected before the War commenced.
The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people; a change in their religious sentiments of their duties and obligations ….
This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people, was the real American Revolution".
The phrase," hearts and minds" is also found in a biblical quotation, in Philippians 4: 7, although that passage does not address the" winning" of hearts and minds as a tactic.
The phrase" winning hearts and minds" has come to be used, often in a derisory sense, to refer to any endeavor by the United States to influence public opinion in foreign countries.
Le tartuffe
Le tartuffe is a 1984 French comedy film directed by and starring Gérard Depardieu based on the play" Tartuffe" by Molière.
It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival.
Hearts and Minds (Vietnam War)
Hearts and Minds( Vietnam) or winning hearts and minds refers to the strategy and programs used by the governments of Vietnam and the United States during the Vietnam War to win the popular support of the Vietnamese people and to help defeat the Viet Cong insurgency.
Pacification is the more formal term for winning hearts and minds.
In this case, however, it was also defined as the process of countering the insurgency.
Military, political, economic, and social means were used to attempt to establish or reestablish South Vietnamese government control over rural areas and people under the influence of the Viet Cong.
Some progress was made in the 1967 – 1971 period by the joint military- civilian organization called CORDS, but the character of the war changed from an insurgency to a conventional war between the armies of South and North Vietnam.
North Vietnam won in 1975.
Pacification or hearts and minds objectives were often in diametric opposition to the strategy of firepower, mobility, and attrition pursued by the U.S. from 1965 to 1968.
Rather than the search and destroy strategy the U.S. followed during those years, hearts and minds had the priority of" hold and protect" the rural population and there by gain its support for the government of South Vietnam.
Hearts and the Highway
Hearts and the Highway is a 1915 silent film historical drama directed by Wilfrid North and produced by the Vitagraph Company of America.
It is based on a novel of the same title by Cyrus Townsend Brady.
The film is now lost with no archival holdings.
Hearts and Flowers
" Hearts and Flowers"( subtitle:" A New Flower Song") is a song composed by Theodore Moses- Tobani( with words by Mary D. Brine) and published in 1893 by Carl Fischer Music.
The famous melody is taken from the introductory 2/4 section of Wintermärchen" Waltzes Op. 366"( 1891) by the Hungarian composer Alphons Czibulka.
Tobani arranged the piece in a 4/ 4 song form as" Hearts and Flowers, a New Flower Song, Op. 245."
The song as a vocal number was soon forgotten but the instrumental version gained popularity in its own right and it is in this form that it remains well known to this day.
Tobani also arranged the tune as a waltz, featured in a medley published in 1900 entitled" Beauties Charms," although this arrangement is now seldom heard.
" Hearts and Flowers" has an association in popular culture as melodramatic photoplay music.
The practice of using the selection as a dramatic cue is documented as early as 1911, although complaints that the tune was becoming overplayed crop up as early as 1913 and 1914, and by 1915, the piece was being called" time worn".
Soon thereafter," Hearts and Flowers"( along with Gustav Lange's" Flower Song") became more commonly associated with underscoring an over- the- top parody of melodrama in film.
Around 1919, musical accompaniment cue sheets start suggesting the tune" a la burlesque" to mock- dramatic scenes.
Even into the late 1920s," Hearts and Flowers" continued to be suggested as a burlesque dramatic piece.
" Hearts and Flowers" was not only heard in theater as accompaniment to films, but played an integral part of on- set music for actors.
Viola
Dana famously requested the tune to be played in order for her to generate enough emotion for her to cry real tears.
This was later parodied in the 1928 film" Show People" with Marion Davies.
The term' hearts- and- flowers' has entered the English language with the sense" extreme sentimentality, cloying sweetness".
There is a reference to" Hearts and Flowers" in" Amazing Spider- Man"# 45, published February, 1967.
Hearts and Diamonds
Hearts and Diamonds may refer to:
4 Hearts
4 Hearts is a Portuguese film directed by Manuel Mozos, released in 2009 and produced by Rosa Filmes.
The cast features Rita Martins, Filipe Duarte, João Lagarto, Margarida Marinho and Diana Costa e Silva.

Question: Are 4 Hearts and Le Tartuffe both from the same country?
Answer: no