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...schools. In Lakewood, Ohio, when the school did not offer enough language and science courses, parents stepped in and taught them themselves; in Scarsdale, N. Y., a group of citizens organized several years ago, the now-defunct Committee of Ten to investigate Communism in the school system, and censor the books in the school libraries. In one community in Texas, a group of parents got together and demanded that European History no longer be taught in the public schools; their demand was heeded. The Lakewood experience worked for good, the others worked for ill; but nonetheless they...
...Censor's Scoop. Some of the censors helped. One agency, blessed with an ex-newsman as a censor, put him to work calling ministries for check points. The first news the Associated Press got of trouble on Corsica came when a censor declared that any mention of the uprising there was forbidden. The Paris A.P. desk got a call through to its stringer on the island before communications were cut off, put the story on the U.S. wire (which was not censored) for a solid 15-minute beat...
...Aurore cried in boldface headlines: LET THE ELYSEE PALACE DESIGNATE DE GAULLE, and the Communist daily L'Humanité ran a frontpage cartoon of De Gaulle holding the dead body of Marianne, symbol of the French nation, with the appeal: "Bar the Route Against Military Dictatorship." Explained one censor: "De Gaulle's name is too much of a national symbol to tamper with." Translated from the French, that seemed to mean that the falling government, fearful of appearing either to embrace or offend the incoming Premier, found De Gaulle too hot to censor...
...trouble with General Humberto Delgado was that he was not following the script. Gesticulating wildly, he told a crowd of 2,000 in a Lisbon high school that he stood for "the persecuted intellectuals, the university graduates without means of work, the abandoned artists, the writers intimidated by the censor, the technicians denied the possibility of giving their best, the muzzled journalists -in fact, all that in other countries represents a true level of culture...
...party election: "Let's hurry back to the hotel and get the first returns." On drinking vodka: "Now I know why they got their Sputniks up first. I'm surprised the whole country didn't go straight up years ago." On the censorship: "The Soviet censor read all my jokes. I haven't seen him since. I understand he is doing my act in Leningrad...