Word: censorable
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...Canadian Corps in Britain staged the biggest maneuvers of the war. Besides teaching the troops the A.B.C.s of both assault and defense, its primary purpose was rationalization. For the benefit of the British, the Army trotted out a really remarkable array of ordnance. For the U.S., the British censor passed articles like that of William H. Stoneman of the Chicago Daily News and New York Post: "If it were not for the R.A.F. and the Home Guard, an invading German Army equipped with Panzer divisions and several divisions of infantry could roam England, spreading havoc for at least one week...
...there had not been a single alarm over London in the month of August. During the week only two British towns, Hull and Newcastle, were bombed. But over Germany, day and night, the R.A.F. stung scores of cities with hundreds of planes at a time. Berlin suffered what the censor agreed was "one of the liveliest raids of the war." This week the British gave Berlin what they said was the heaviest. Such heavy raids could not be without cost. And this week London reported two Flying Fortresses missing -the first lost since they went into action...
Tried in Hamilton last week, Fiancé Akopiantz, flanked by two U.S. vice consuls, pleaded guilty, was fined ?10. He was kept in custody until the fine was paid. Manwhile a poker-faced censor read the document in the case...
...Pastor Martin Niemoller has been transferred from the dread Sachsenhausen concentration camp to some place of detention in Bavaria "where he is much better off," according to a message smuggled past the German censor last week. The heroic leader of Lutheran resistance to Hitler has been held by the Gestapo since...
...restored to the air in Berlin after being barred because the Propaganda Ministry didn't like remarks made in the U.S. by CBS Commentator Elmer Davis about P. G. Wodehouse who has become a Nazi broadcaster (TIME, July 14). CBS told the Nazis they could continue to censor its broadcasts in Berlin, but could blue-pencil no CBS copy originating in the U.S. Getting tough with the Nazis got results. Berlin, which appreciates the privilege of sending censored material over major U.S. networks, restored CBS's broadcasting rights...