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...Words & phrases invariably deleted by political censor boards...
...Army and Navy have the undisputed right to control correspondents and photographers in military areas and to censor their news and pictures. Such censorship, however, should be limited to vital military and naval information and not extend to the vague fields of politics and public morale...
Peter had fled by air to Athens. There he composed his declaration-his was the only true authority, etc., etc.-and tried to broadcast it to the world. The week's most pathetic irony was that Peter's words failed to get by the Greek censor-for reasons still unknown. Then Peter boarded another plane and set out for Palestine. On the way the plane was attacked by an Axis fighter, and one of Peter's Ministers was killed. But the hurt plane reached Jerusalem, a new cradle for Free Yugoslavia...
...cares nothing for constitutional methods of continuismo ; he suspended the Constitution when he seized power last September. But his opposition is also lawless. One exiled Paraguayan is onetime Dictator Rafael Franco, who has been supporting himself manufacturing soap in a small apartment in Montevideo, Uruguay. Last week, through the censor ship that envelops remote Asunción, came reports of a Franquista revolt. Colonel Franco's brother Laconich hopped a plane from Montevideo for the Paraguayan capital, but at the request of General Morinigo's Government Montevideo police kept Rafael Franco where he was. A communiqué from...
...newer approach to the problems of the tenant farmer. Slim Summerville ended up in one of the key dramatic parts; the Three Stooges and Mickey Rooney were unfortunately unavailable, so the Esquire hillbilly roles written for them were given to lesser-known great actors. Will Hays found nothing to censor, and the Governor of Georgia's sole complaint was that the state's fine peaches weren't given a plug. Others who read the book or saw the play will find "Tobacco Road," the picture, one of the funniest slapstick comedies of the year--the most disappointing Hollywood product since...