Word: censored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, from Bulgaria, Correspondent Gedye had some interesting things to say about the system that had cost him his latest post. When the censorship went into effect on Jan. 1 the Russian Press Bureau clamped down with a bang, suppressing even such messages as "Censor will not allow this story to be sent." All unfavorable facts about Russia were promptly deleted from press wires, together with any comments or interpretation, any qualifying clauses crediting hypotheses to "the Soviet point of view." Even excerpts from the local press were erased if they hinted that all was not milk & honey...
...censor himself made up for his deficiency in English by blue-penciling everything he could not understand. Deleting the word "dyestuffs" from a list of products Russia could take from Germany, he explained: "Foodstuffs mean stuff for food and dyestuffs mean stuff for dying. I am not going to pass an insinuation that the Soviets will import poison gases from Germany." "Secretaryship of the Comintern" was suppressed on the ground that the Comintern had no Navy. A reference to the "Baltic Division of the Foreign Office" was censored because "there are no Soviet troops in the Baltic now-not even...
Less amusing, more significant were Gedye's firsthand accounts of Russia behind the censor...
...getting news from place to place through damaged streets, under shrapnel showering from the sky, increased daily. A. P. installed a teletype to transmit dispatches to the cable office. The New York Times hired a veteran of the civil war in Spain, who shuttled imperturbably back & forth between the censor's office and the Times newsroom...
...Authoress Sand was by no means finished. Suddenly at 46 she took to writing plays. Her Le Marquis de Villemer was a smash hit. Her anticlerical novel, Mademoiselle La Quintinie, was a bestseller. Napoleon III read all her books, went to the first nights of all her plays his censor did not ban. In 1863 she dined regularly with the Goncourts, Maupassant, Zola, Taine, Renan, Gautier, Flaubert. Most of them admired her as people admire a prehistoric skeleton. But with Flaubert she struck up a warm friendship. His genius was not yet recognized: she urged him to work, though...