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Called in by the Senate Judiciary Committee to tell these stories, to soothe a teapot tempest, were Censor Byron Price, Attorney General Francis Biddle, FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover, Captain Ellis M. Zacharias of the Navy Intelligence, Brigadier General Hayes A. Kroner of the Army Intelligence...
...hops, Committee Chairman Frederick Van Nuys demanded explanations from Censor Price: How come such snooping? Why was not Congress informed? Calmly the witnesses explained: their authority to censor territorial mail stemmed from the President's constitutional powers. They told their spy stories, soothed ruffled tempers...
...week's end Washington authorities had been needled enough. They retorted. Reason for the censorship of some opinion, they said, is that Axis propagandists seize upon reports of Allied dissension, racial or otherwise, and feed them to European and South American peoples in exaggerated shapes. Explained U.S. Censor Byron Price: When foreign correspondents undertake to send abroad editorial comments which tend "to emphasize disunity in this country instead of stating the facts as they are," they must be censored...
...though the political opinions of Sun Tzu, Alexander, Napoleon, Clausewitz, Foertsch may be repugnant, their military ideas are valuable. So with Fuller: every reader must be his own censor...
...been a world trouble spot since antiquity. Here fabled Dido was consumed in flames. Offshore Ulysses' sailors were lured by the lotus-eaters. From Carthage, whose ruins lie near the present city of Tunis, Hannibal's legions moved against the Roman Empire. It was Cato the Censor who urged on the Romans in the Punic wars with his famous slogan: "Delenda Est Carthago" (Carthage must be destroyed...