Word: censor
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...wartime, U.S. newspapers printed a useful warning to their readers on many dispatches from abroad: "Passed by Censor." That warning has now virtually vanished from the daily U.S. press, but censorship abroad has not. Most U.S. readers, when they stop to think about it at all, realize that the news from Russia is openly censored. Fewer may know that open or indirect censorship is smothering the news in nation after nation, including some which loudly insist that they alone have true "freedom of the press...
Last week the New York Times, which has a larger foreign staff and publishes more foreign dispatches than any other U.S. newspaper, editorially remarked that it was tempted to resume the use of "Censored." As a case in point, the Times took up the "small and dwindling" corps of U.S. correspondents (now five) still permitted to do business in Moscow, including the Times's own Harrison Salisbury (who last week was back in the U.S. for a brief Minnesota vacation). Said the Times: "When [the Moscow correspondent] has written his dispatch, with the best accuracy he can muster...
...Chastity Belts. Freedom is not losing out everywhere. The Supreme Court of India, in its first term under the new constitution, recently struck down government attempts to ban a pro-Communist weekly and pre-censor an extremist Hindu weekly. Ruled Justice Patanjali Sastri: "Criticism of government and exciting disaffection . . . toward government cannot be regarded as justifying [censorship] of the press...
...dropped by the cable office before leaving. To his astonishment, he found that all press messages could go out freely. After the operator had dispatched Forbis' copy, he asked what had happened. The manager told him that he had been visited by Somoza's chief aide and censor, and that the conversation had gone as follows: "From now on nothing is to be censored. That is, unless it seems to be critical of General . . . No, nothing at all is to be censored...
...acted as if there were no war, contributed stories to collaborationist papers. When others, writing in French magazines, denounce his wartime course, he shrugs them off as "professionals of the Liberation." His friends have tried to excuse him by saying that he wrote anti-racist stories which the Nazi censor rejected, but he himself offers no defense for what he did or did not do. As a practicing pessimist, he prefers to meet such, questions, as he does most others, merely with a silent stare...