Word: bans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Perhaps the most significant new ban is a warning against "premature disclosure of diplomatic negotiations or conversations." He said the clause was intended to "preclude anything which will give aid to the enemy by flushing our hand," and gave as a horrible example the "premature" news of the talks with Vichy over Martinique...
...There should be a ban on flowery, overenthusiastic lyrical sports writing for the duration. . . . Remembering the exploits of military heroes, it does not seem appropriate to overdo the use of such words as 'courageous,' 'gallant,' 'fighting'. ... It doesn't take much 'courage' to overcome a two-run lead in the ninth...
Last week, they unanimously voted that 2D was an "intolerable impediment to free thought and expression." They even agreed that the 16-month-old ban on the Daily Worker should be lifted. Their position : Why continue suppression of a fanatic sheet at the cost of creating a Communist martyr and jeopardizing faith in British democracy...
Calling the Administration's recent ban of Social Justice from the United States mails thoroughly justifiable, Nieman Fellow Donald S. Grant said yesterday that he would rather have the Government do too much, too early, than too little, too late...
Grant also favored the ban on the grounds that Democracy must make a show of force in times of crisis. Comparing Coughlin's Social Justice with Hitler's abortive Beer Cellar Putsch, which took place in the days of the Weimar Republic, Grant said. "At that time, German Democracy showed that it was either weak or else that it had no confidence in itself, by handling the conspirators with kid gloves and letting them off with relatively easy sentences. Had the German government been stronger or had it had more confidence in itself. Hitler might well have not risen...