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Three years ago, the U.N. charter was signed at San Francisco. During ceremonies commemorating that all but forgotten anniversary, U.S. wartime Censor Byron Price said last week: "The United Nations has not become what it was intended to be. [It] cannot endure half success and half failure...
From there on, Czechoslovakia will probably follow the Communist pattern established in Poland for controlling foreign publications. Officially, there is Government censorship of all foreign publications, but Government policy allows almost all publications to pass the censor so that freedom of the press can be claimed. The real censorship is exercised by the state distributing agency, which can fail to distribute any publication it dislikes...
...human mind, even the Communist mind, turns toward order. In a land where brother cannot trust brother, fear of the policeman must serve instead. The policeman has to be everywhere, because there is no other cement in the society. The spy, the informer and the censor are the aristocrats of the Communist world. The cop at the keyhole is king...
...Lieut. General Grigory Savonenkov, the Soviet minister, a bullyragging, bellowing, table-pounding type. Savonenkov's arrival in Helsinki in mid-January was the first tip-off to the Finns that trouble was brewing. At that time I filed you a brief piece about his arrival, and the Moscow censor deleted his military title and all reference to his general's uniform. This time I inquired whether he was still wearing the uniform. The reply from a competent Finnish observer: "I think he sleeps...
Much of the film's forthright power has been lost through the work of the censor's scissors, and scenes that were honest and strong have become merely smutty. Admitting that there is temptation everywhere, the picture questions whether anyone can be truly religious, and finally states that one can. The Sister Superior, after a fierce struggle with her passion, defeats it, and discovers a humility that she did not have before the experience in the mountains. The conflict is a real one, for every year the nuns can leave the order if they want...