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...newsmen, fully recognizing the need of censorship codes for wartime news, have long been irked by the way the U.S. codes were maltreated. Last week they found they were in good company. Genial, rolypoly U.S. Censor Byron Price was irked...
...Censor Price announced that the codes (because of the improvement in the Allies' war prospects) would be relaxed in several particulars. He also announced that the crowd of volunteer cooks who had been sticking their spoons into the censorship broth would now go back and sit down. He meant the Army & Navy security officers, war plant pressagents, a few chambers of commerce, many a Government agency, who had become overofficious in deciding what kind of war news the U.S. public was entitled...
...Said Censor Price: "I solicit continued cooperation to see . . . that a dangerous psychology of overcensorship is not created throughout the land by the activities of a miscellany of volunteer firemen...
...Canada, reappeared as an Anglican curate in Kent. Then he dropped his clerical garb, called himself Lincoln, in 1910 was elected M.P. with the help of B. Seebohm Rowntree, a credulous cocoa king for whom Lincoln had turned Quaker. During World War I he became a British mail censor, was jailed after boasting how he had outsmarted Britain as a spy. Released an Anglophobe, he tried to help German militarists back into power, eventually sold out to France. In the mid-'20s Chinese Buddhist Abbot Chao Kung was identified as Trebitsch-Lincoln reincarnate, founder of the "League of Truth...
...Wall Street Journal charged that FCC was using its licensing authority "to censor broadcasts, when the law gave it no such power. . . ." The New York World-Telegram chimed in with headlines: BROADCASTERS LIVE IN HOLY FEAR OF FCC WRATH...