Word: censor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...United States is almost an accessory to a crime if it supports Perón in any way, and if it does not flatly denounce the present campaign to destroy free speech and a free press in Argentina." The Washington Post added: "All over the free world the censor is beating out the newspaperman. One light after the other is being extinguished . . . Is this an internal matter?" The Chicago Sun-Times joined with the Sydney, Australia Morning Herald in calling Perón a tyrant. The Richmond Times-Dispatch saw him as "an unscrupulous demagogue who would not hesitate...
...first time since the Korean war began, U.S. news services last week were getting incomprehensible, hashed-up field dispatches tersely ending: "Rest of story withheld by censor." Reason: General MacArthur's Tokyo headquarters had imposed a second censorship on stories already cleared by General Matt Ridgway's Eighth Army censors in the field, and had set up a board of ex-combat officers to run it. Under this sort of fire, Eighth Army censors had become tougher...
...double check, Tokyo explained, was that information vital to the enemy had been seeping out of field headquarters, some of it in Army communiques. But the double check made little sense to correspondents, since 1) it did not apply to Navy or Air Force dispatches and 2) censors on the battlefield presumably know more about what should be killed than Tokyo. The New York Herald Tribune's David McConnell, who was censored by Tokyo in filing a story on the new censorship itself, pointed out that all news from Korea moves on "unsecure" telephone and teletype lines, "which...
Last week Mexico City film distributors, bent on reviving Viva Villa, ran into some new objections. Government censor Salvador Romero balked above all at one scene showing Villa disobeying a superior officer and capturing a town to oblige a U.S. newsman who has written the story in advance. "An abuse of history," cried Romero angrily. "Villa is not a national hero, but he was a soldier and would not disobey orders." The showing was banned...
Ways of Love, which apparently will never slip into vigilant Boston, has escaped from a trigger-happy censor and is now running with all three superb sections at the Paris, 58th and Fifth. If Cardinal Spellman make as much progress in New York as he has here, this may be nearly the last chance to see it in the East...