Word: censor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Then as Chief U.N. Representative Colonel Andrew J. Kinney confirmed that the Communist press was represented at Kaesong, the session broke into a tumult of charge and countercharge. Why couldn't U.N. reporters go? When Kinney admitted that .Kaesong was really a Communist-held city, an Army censor broke in to warn correspondents not to use the information. Snapped Chicago Daily Newsman Fred Sparks: "I regard this information as so important that I will not abide by your censorship." The censor's ruling was reversed...
Well, Oliver Twist has been finally released [TIME, May 14], although in abridged form . . . The power of the movie industry to censor, so well demonstrated in this case ... is contrary to the traditions of this country . . . The people who do such things in the name of tolerance and understanding spread anti-Semitism rather than diminish...
...were irked at Marshall's frequent recourse to lengthy off-the-record confidences. But gradually they seemed to realize that they were being told just about everything; by week's end they were so stuffed with hot information that some of their own questions had to be censored. "We are entering doors that have been barred, we are unlocking secrets that have been protected in steel safes," said Chairman Russell. "I have lain awake at night. Even the public record has carried some material which strikes me as dangerous." The censor's blue pencil had struck from...
...bulletins and new leads on snippets of information from the caucus room's white-haired Doorkeeper Gus Cook-mostly reports on who was talking and how many times MacArthur had lighted his pipe. But just 50 minutes later, newsmen got a pleasant surprise: the first pages of the censored transcript began to come through. Stenographers sitting in on the hearing delivered their batches of copy to the censor, Vice Admiral Arthur C. Davis. Davis blocked out whatever seemed to compromise military security, passed them along to two Ditto operators. They quickly turned out copies for 56 papers and news...
...policy of telling the news as we see it gets us into trouble with authoritarian governments anywhere - Latin America not excepted. But the censor's scissors and the dictator's edicts only heighten the educated reader's determination to get the news. Over the past decade, even the "strong men" have tried to govern by more & more democratic methods and have become less & less prone to interfere with what people read. Though single issues are sometimes confiscated, only Perón's Argentina still bans TIME. In all countries, of course, TIME-readers make full...