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After that, a comedy of errors and bureaucratic snafus began. While the Navy in Tokyo sat on the censor's copies of the stories for twelve days, A.P., using its uncensored copy, succeeded in getting it okayed in Washington with just three major deletions. Stricken out were the use of "TV eyes," the fact that the "missiles" were actually obsolete airplanes and carried 2,000-lb. bombs. Last week A.P. sent out the story for release to the morning papers. When U.P. got word of the release, it asked its Tokyo office why its own story was not being...
...seeking to apply the broad and all-inclusive definition of 'sacrilegious' given by the New York courts, the censor is set adrift upon a boundless sea amid a myriad of conflicting currents of religious views, with no charts but those provided by the most vocal and powerful orthodoxies. New York cannot vest such unlimited restraining control over motion pictures in a censor...
...Birth of a Nation" has happily been buried by Boston's censor. It's the first decent or sane thing he has ever done. At least give him credit for doing the right thing, if for the wrong reason. You can always see "My Son John.".... Franklin T. Laskin, Yale Law School...
Since the book does not bear imprimatur (official endorsement), the Church Censor obviously perceived its inadequacies. This means that its statements of Church policy are non-official--so that this book hardly serves to, refute Blanshard even for a Catholic...
...glory of the Klan, it neither coerces moviegoers nor deprives them of any of their rights. The broader and narrower views of tolerance clash only when professional groups and public officials attempt unjustifiably to use one to crush the other, as the NAACP, the Equal Rights Society, and City Censor Milliken are doing...