Word: censorship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...youth and ominous "past" of Dictator Josef Stalin of Soviet Russia are kept shrouded in perpetual mystery by his iron censorship of all Soviet information sources. The very names of his wife and child are well-guarded secrets. Stalin dwells in the seclusion of an Oriental Potentate, because, say his friends, his parents were Asiatic and the reticence of the East is his birthright. Naturally the enemies of Comrade Stalin tell another story...
...Antonio Mosconi, a Venetian aristocrat, was next informed that he is expected to immortalize his name rounding out a fecund cycle bounded by Six Points: 1) "Immutable maintainance of the present level of stabilization (i lira equals $.0526)." 2) Total curtailment of foreign borrowing by the State, plus drastic censorship of private Italian loan flotations abroad. 3) Stern coercion of Italian tax evaders and delinquents, "who are the vilest leeches sucking the blood of human society." 4) "Resolute avoidance of any increase in taxation." 5) "Introduction of the most crystalline simplicity and clarity in all state accounts, so that each...
...Army is barely mentioned. With mighty Russia in the absolute grip of the Dictator, there remained last week small hope for any return to power of Trotsky, but merely the possibility that he was being championed before the plenary session of the Internationale. Naturally the press and cable censorship of Dictator Stalin made it impossible to know, last .week, how brisk a fight was being staged in behalf of Trotsky...
...whereby the young Dictator of Manchuria, Chang Hsueh-liang, had agreed, last week to place himself in subordinate alliance with the Nationalists. Lastly, Chang was not only compelled by the Japanese to break his agreement, but was detained in his own capital, Mukden, by Japanese troops who clamped a censorship upon all means of communication. At this point the new Nationalist State, not yet recognized by any Great Power, stood badly in need of such moral support as could be given, for example, by the U. S. To a certain blatant U. S. newspaper publisher must go the credit...
...caution! We must stand off and see where the current leads. Well do we know the evils of censorship, the glorification of bootlegging, the emasculation of conscience. Well do we know that although in the beginning this sacrifice of principle might apply only to news of crime and scandal, it would soon fall on politics. History tell its unambiguous story of the fate of any state that prohibits opposition, and we know that the destruction of safety valves has caused more than one explosion. Let us remember that to free press, democracy owes most of her important victories. Political advances...