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Appointed temporary censor of news and communications was FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover...
Even the airy-fairy Cairo censor permitted this dispatch on the fire-power question: "Although the Germans' losses have been heavy, many of their surviving machines are the huge but highly mobile Mark III and Mark IV tanks. The British have tanks that will halt these giants, but it is not always possible to have them in the right place at the right time. Despite the fine showing of light American-built tanks against the German heavyweights, it is obvious that when huge machines face only light ones or infantry the advantage must lie with the heavy machines...
...civil-service censor board was reversed by the State Board of Regents after the film's makers, Producer-Director Herbert Kline and Author John Steinbeck, refused to delete two protested sequences: 1) a woman nursing her child; 2) a woman in labor. The birth is not shown -merely the medieval method of assisting labor by drawing a shawl tight across the fully-clothed mother's midriff...
...said he was a suicide. Many a U.S. airman and war veteran could recall Ernst Udet as a stumpy, laughing, likeable little man with a thirst for beer and information, a man of many questions who carefully avoided questioners. The last photograph of him alive, as approved by the censor, showed a bald, grim, tight-lipped man looking considerably older than his 45 years...
Then they ducked off into woods and fields, in an unholy fog of dust. As they passed tankers going to the rear, censor-able words were exchanged. Up front the Fourth's riflemen and machine-gunners scrambled down, moved forward, got into position...