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Last week Madrid's dramatic censor forbade production of a new. play by Spain's leading dramatist, Jacinto Benavente, in which were to have appeared a fictional Prime Minister, King, Queen and invalid Crown Prince. The stage King and Queen were to have quarreled with their Prime Minister over whether religious or medical agencies should be invoked to cure the Crown Prince...
Therefore the Madrid censor was unquestionably justified in quashing Jacinto Benavente's play and issuing the following communique: "The dramatist has been authorized to issue his work only in a revised book form. It is believed that the public, when it knows the work, will realize it would be dangerous to the people's spiritual tranquillity and peace of mind to allow it to be performed...
...Milan one issue of the Mussolini family newspaper, Il Popolo d' Italia, was sequestered, last week, by the Fascist censor, because it contained a "sensational" story headed...
Observers considered the sequestration a "plant," designed to strengthen the Censor's position when he moves to sequester other newspapers. The sensational story, it was explained, was inserted in Il Popolo by irresponsible underlings "late one night, after the editor had gone home...
Most distinguished and revered among the 19 Senators who voted against the Amendment was Signer Benedetto Croce, aged but foremost living Italian philosopher-historian and philosopher. His speech, boldly remonstrating with Il Duce, did not pass the Fascist censor...