Word: censorable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Japan's Domei news agency-as it has more than once before-triumphantly reported that the old warlord had agreed to head their Chinese Government. Next day from Wu's spokesman came his usual denial. A crafty Japanese censor at Peiping had read a telegram General Wu had sent to friends in which he said he was ready "to overcome any difficulties to secure peace." The phrase, said the spokesman, was lifted from the wire, sent to Japan where Domei converted it into an acceptance of Japan's offer...
...England last month the Merseyside Left Theatre Club produced Clifford Odets' Waiting for Lefty. From the play the Lord Chamberlain (official censor) had struck out-as profane-the line: "They'll tear Christ from his bleeding cross." When the Merseysiders used the line anyhow, an uproar followed. The manager banged down the curtain. Ten of the club's actors and officials were ordered arrested...
...York Times Correspondent John W. White wrote: "The .. . Conference . . . functioned under a dictatorial regime of censorship, intimidation and spying such as never before seen in any Pan-American assembly. The Peruvian Government not only tried to control the newspaper correspondents, it censored and spied on the delegates. . . . Secret service men were found searching the offices of the American delegation. . . . The Government . . . violated diplomatic immunity and examined the delegates' mail. Many chauffeurs assigned to the delegates were known to be in the employ of the secret police. . . . [Peru] used at least two agents provocateurs in its campaign to intimidate visiting...
...towns with English mayors, the mayors were allowed to welcome the wagons only on sufferance. Jewish mayors were rudely told to keep away. Finally even the pro-Boer South African Broadcasting Corp. was obliged to censor speeches. Ministers of the Dutch Reformed Church piled spiritual coals on the political fire. They declared that the wagons represented the Biblical Ark, that their axle grease would cure diseases, that children baptized in the wagons would lead blessed lives. The Czech crisis and the German pogroms were excuses for severe nationalistic outbreaks. In Johannesburg bearded Fascists fell on a band of antiFascists with...
...Philadelphia last week, State Senator George Woodward, one of Pennsylvania's wealthiest citizens and grouchiest politicos, smacked the genteel Philadelphia Forum for sponsoring the Lunt-Fontanne Amphitryon 38. Calling the show a "demoralizing influence," Censor Woodward said he objected not only as a Forum subscriber but also as "a subscriber to the Anti-Venereal Disease Society." Momentarily clutching the ropes, the Forum rallied, quoted Actor Lunt that "Queen Mary came to the play in London, and Queen Mary doesn't go to plays that are immoral...