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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...
Since Catholic censors deal not with matters of fact but of faith and morals, the Detroit committee has had plenty of headaches over the slippery Coughlin discourses. Reputedly Father Coughlin several Sundays ago said something to which the censors had objected. Last Sunday's hocus-pocus suggested that the radio priest, expecting continued censor trouble, was building up a big issue to make the rabble roar again...
...havoc that might well have been created by a first-class shower of Nazi bombs of the type Poland had last September. Actually, it was caused by a Blitzkrieg of the elements. What gave it additional martial atmosphere was that nowadays British weather is a military secret. The censor-fearing London newspapers carried no weather news at all in a spell of such weather as had not been seen in the Isles for 46 years. Hush-hushed was the fact that the British capital was covered with snow, that snowdrifts twelve feet high were piled up on the Dover-Folkestone...
Great Britain, like the rest of warring Europe, has had a strict taboo since war began on the broadcasting of weather news, because of its likely value to enemy airmen. But last week frosty Sir John Reith, press-dodging boss of Britain's censors, melted sufficiently to let BBC tell the world a bit about British weather.* Said the BBC newscaster to folks at home & abroad: "We have been having the coldest spell for 46 years. Actually, it began a fortnight before Christmas. . . . London one day had 25 degrees of frost. The Thames was frozen over . . . from Teddington...
...CENSOR MARCHES ON-Morris L Ernst & Alexander Lindey-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). A sharp, clattering, rather witty account, in the best liberal-lawyer-to-laymen manner, of what U. S. sex censorship amounts to in its several fields. Nothing startlingly new is said on this sore old subject. The authors bring all the more famous court fights, raids, enlightened opinions and funny stories between two covers. The book also outlines just what can, to date, be legally got away with; and gives in full the anthropologically fascinating, immortally funny Production Code for the movies. The volume may be useful...