Word: censored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...simmering reciprocal trade treaties, another pot boiled over and blew the lid off. From the Associated Press came a new version of the first seizure of U. S. mails on transatlantic Clippers landing at Bermuda. According to the story, when Captain Charles A. Lorber refused to let the British censor board his plane, the censor whistled up a boatload of marines armed with rifles with fixed bayonets. There are times for heroes, times for diplomats. Forty-two-year-old Captain Lorber was a hero to more than his Baltimore family. He had behind him a record of a million miles...
Snapped Lord Lothian, British Ambassador: "Complete eyewash." Said an authoritative source in London: "You can be certain it won't happen again." At first denied by Lieut. Colonel R. Swire, chief censor in Hamilton, who declared, "utter nonsense . . . no armed men were in the vicinity," the story was later admitted in part. An official statement pointed out that a force majeure had to be created to enable Captain Lorber to yield his mail without any question of having failed in his duty as a U. S. mail carrier. This "show of force" was a boatload of armed special constables...
...Italian liner Rex hove to last week off Gibraltar, a tall, icy-eyed man leaned on the rail, watched impassively as British censor officers came alongside. While seamen removed from the Rex's hold 334 bags of U. S. mail addressed to Germany and Poland, Sumner Welles, U. S. Under Secretary of State, left his post at the rail, joined the British officers at tea on the veranda deck. Presumably as a compliment to him, the Rex was cleared in the record time of three hours and 40 minutes. Then the British officers politely said good-by to polite...
Placid and unmoved sat Chief Censor Deputy Martinaud-Deplat, even when Orator Blum boomed at him, "the personnel of the censorship bureau is discredited with the press because of their ignorance of the conditions in which the press has to work, notably the time limitations to which the press is subjected! ... As for photographs, our inferiority is even more disastrous. I have examined recent issues of an important American magazine and I have noticed many fine German pictures and only two mediocre French photographs...
Died. Elizabeth Corbett Yeats, 71, artist sister of the late great Poet William Butler Yeats; after brief illness; in Dublin. (News of her death reached the U. S. a month late, in a censor-delayed letter from her painter-brother Jack Butler Yeats...