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...were irked at Marshall's frequent recourse to lengthy off-the-record confidences. But gradually they seemed to realize that they were being told just about everything; by week's end they were so stuffed with hot information that some of their own questions had to be censored. "We are entering doors that have been barred, we are unlocking secrets that have been protected in steel safes," said Chairman Russell. "I have lain awake at night. Even the public record has carried some material which strikes me as dangerous." The censor's blue pencil had struck from...
...bulletins and new leads on snippets of information from the caucus room's white-haired Doorkeeper Gus Cook-mostly reports on who was talking and how many times MacArthur had lighted his pipe. But just 50 minutes later, newsmen got a pleasant surprise: the first pages of the censored transcript began to come through. Stenographers sitting in on the hearing delivered their batches of copy to the censor, Vice Admiral Arthur C. Davis. Davis blocked out whatever seemed to compromise military security, passed them along to two Ditto operators. They quickly turned out copies for 56 papers and news...
...policy of telling the news as we see it gets us into trouble with authoritarian governments anywhere - Latin America not excepted. But the censor's scissors and the dictator's edicts only heighten the educated reader's determination to get the news. Over the past decade, even the "strong men" have tried to govern by more & more democratic methods and have become less & less prone to interfere with what people read. Though single issues are sometimes confiscated, only Perón's Argentina still bans TIME. In all countries, of course, TIME-readers make full...
...United States is almost an accessory to a crime if it supports Perón in any way, and if it does not flatly denounce the present campaign to destroy free speech and a free press in Argentina." The Washington Post added: "All over the free world the censor is beating out the newspaperman. One light after the other is being extinguished . . . Is this an internal matter?" The Chicago Sun-Times joined with the Sydney, Australia Morning Herald in calling Perón a tyrant. The Richmond Times-Dispatch saw him as "an unscrupulous demagogue who would not hesitate...
...double check, Tokyo explained, was that information vital to the enemy had been seeping out of field headquarters, some of it in Army communiques. But the double check made little sense to correspondents, since 1) it did not apply to Navy or Air Force dispatches and 2) censors on the battlefield presumably know more about what should be killed than Tokyo. The New York Herald Tribune's David McConnell, who was censored by Tokyo in filing a story on the new censorship itself, pointed out that all news from Korea moves on "unsecure" telephone and teletype lines, "which...