Word: alistair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Worst example of the harsh censorship came in mid-week when lanky, hard-working Alistair Cooke, now a U.S. citizen, correspondent for British Broadcasting Corp., London Times, and London Daily Herald, tried to send a dispatch to the Herald naming a few of the things correspondents had not been permitted to transmit. He learned correspondents are even forbidden to report what sort of reports are forbidden. Blue-penciled from his dispatch was, among other things, this: "Most British correspondents agree . . . that it is practically impossible to report any news item about the [U.S. race] problem...