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Many an honest Communist believes the dogma that Russians attained the goals of their First Five-Year Plan (1928-32), are now attaining the goals of their Second (1933-37). Last week the Moscow censor passed certain statistics, pertinent though belated...
Earlier in the week Rumania's great peasant leader, Dr. Juliu Maniu, had given fair warning that he would orate upon royal sin in the Chamber of Deputies. Promptly the censor suppressed this speech, but its contents soon leaked out. Dr. Maniu had been about to reveal that as Premier he consented to Carol's return, and to the ending of the regency for Boy King Mihai (TIME, June 16, 1930), solely on the strength of promises made by Mistress Lupescu. Read his suppressed speech in part: "She declared 'My role has been that of Carol...
...Soviet Politbureau or Red Big Ten had been assassinated (TIME, Dec. 10), Soviet firing squads last week mowed down 66 Russians, one a woman, who were not accused of having anything to do with Assassin Leonid Nicolaev or his crime. According to dispatches passed by the Soviet censor, "they died to express the Government's determination that Nicolaev's act should not be the model for others...
Having received 3,000 new books for the prison library, the warden of the Penitentiary at Joliet, Ill. appointed as "literary censor" Convict Nathan Leopold who, with Richard Loeb, murdered young Bobbie Franks in 1923. Censor Leopold will expurgate "objectionable ideas...
...Fane's relations with her husband had remained as they were when she first arrived in Hongkong, hers would have been a loveless and ignoble marriage. Since it is nothing of the sort at the conclusion of The Painted Veil, the picture, despite the fact that Censor Joseph Breen gave it Certificate of Approval No. 395, can be considered an advertisement for adultery as a matrimonial cureall. In this respect it follows Somerset Maugham's shallow novel, from which it was adapted. In other respects, except that it lacks the rapid-fire beginning in which the two lovers...