Word: censored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
Shocked by such pro-British utterances was Deputy Dillon's Party leader, onetime President William Thomas Cosgrave, who repudiated the speech. Even more shocked was Prime Minister Eamon de Valera. He tried to have the speech censored-to no avail. Eire's censor takes orders from nobody, sometimes censors even Taoiseach de Valera...
...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...