Word: censored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Britons were certain that Adolf Hitler had decided to crash the party. Huge German air assaults lasting from dawn to dusk began; 400 or 500 Nazi raiders came over Britain every day; no hour was without its dogfight. Finally, after holding it back for several hours, the British censor released a dispatch reporting that heavy explosions, believed to be caused by shells, not bombs, had occurred on the southeast coast-presumably the work of Nazi guns across the Channel...
...last week events would not let the President and his aides forget the problem. A 24th, a 25th British destroyer were reported lost. How many more were damaged and out of action only the British Admiralty knew. The German censor released a picture of what happened to one British destroyer (see cut)-a reminder of Britain's need. A Republican paper, the New York Herald Tribune suggested that "the British are at once in a much stronger long-run position, yet in more urgent need of immediate assistance" than German invasion talk led the U. S. to believe...
Columnist Williams continued to demand an independent air force and above all a unified Defense plan for all services, meantime asked by what right the Navy Department (which includes the Marine Corps) undertook to censor his civilian writings. For answer he got a weaseling memo, finding in one paragraph that as an inactive reservist he was not subject to control, in the next that by "custom and usage" he was under the Navy thumb. Replied Al Williams: "I tender my resignation quietly and without publication. . . . My services will always be at the command of the U. S. Marine Corps...
...break diplomatic relations if any of the 15 arrested Nazi leaders were deported, but promised, on the other hand, economic prosperity for Uruguay after the war if unfriendly agitation against Germany halted. By way of reply, the Uruguayan Senate hurriedly passed a law giving the Government power to censor press and radio and dissolving all foreign organizations.* A parliamentary committee proposed to ask the U. S. for an emergency trade treaty giving the U. S. control of Uruguayan exports & imports for the duration...
...days after the Free Press incident, editors of Detroit papers got together in the office of the Detroit News with a close-clipped, tight-lipped censorship official from Toronto. They agreed: 1) that a censor should be stationed in Windsor to advise them, 2) that they would kill any story in their Canadian editions that the censor did not like...