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...Great Willkie Button Mystery was at last explained. When the New Jersey mother of a Marine in the South Pacific got a letter from him asking for 500 old Willkie campaign buttons, with the explanation of why he wanted them deleted by a censor. Republican National Chairman Harrison E. Spangler sized the event up as a red-hot issue. Probably, he spluttered, demanding an investigation, the Marine was just trying to counteract New Deal propaganda in the armed forces...
Referring to the rumor that the Boston censor had banned the film for other than private showings President Aldrey of the Spanish Club replied, "No comment." An afternoon showing at 4:15 o'clock is also planned...
...according to Lilly Abegg, the Japanese are not downhearted. On Pearl Harbor Day, Japanese schoolboys tied pieces of white cloth around their heads, imitated samurai warriors going into battle; students paraded, sang in the streets. Wrote Lilly Abegg, perhaps with the Tokyo censor in mind: "One must have seen with his own eyes how Tokyo celebrated ... to realize how strong the war enthusiasm...
...Censor's Cases. As Censor Price well knew, many a volunteer censor had suppressed news stories or portions of news stories under the pretext of security for the Armed Forces-when the real reason was that the suppressed facts did no credit to his organization. Recent example: the Defense Plant Corp. held up a Tulsa Tribune story on coal mining for five months (TIME, Dec. 13). More celebrated example was the holdup of the General Patton story on the appeal of the Army High Command in Africa. There were hundreds of other instances...
...Censor's Guide. As a guide to the new policy, Censor Price relaxed some of censorship's 250-odd specifications, so that newspapers, magazines and radio may now carry stories about such previously taboo matters as war production figures (on a national scale), merchant marine operations, diplomatic negotiations not connected with military operations...