Word: censorship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although Rumania is still under a censorship cloud, it being a punishable offense to mention Prince Carol's name, either orally or in writing (the newspapers overcome the difficulty by leaving blank spaces for his name), the court took no objection to it, speakers on both sides referring to him as Prince Carol of Hohenzollern...
...libraries in the world, a depository of human thought; consequently much of its contents are contradictory. "This exchange and freedom of thought we consider the primary function of a library, and in keeping with the American ideal of a free press. Any other course would lead to an arbitrary censorship as detrimental to American political liberty as to American academic thought...
...Carolists are most numerous. Declaring emphatically that the dynasty question was settled and could not be reopened, Prime Minister Bratiano proclaimed martial law throughout the land. All public building were occupied by troops, numerous arrests were made, the frontiers were closed, telephone and telegraph services were suspended and the censorship was tightened. Newspapers reverted to their old custom of leaving blank spaces in their columns in place of news forbidden by the censors, no mention of the name of Carol, either orally or in writing, being permitted. Still, despite repeated official denials, a fierce agitation, centering about Carol...
Significance. Censorship veiled conditions in Rumania to such an extent that prognostication seems impossible. However, it is known that disatisfaction in that country is such that all the opposition parties are only too glad to hang their hats on the Carplist peg in order to oust Prime Minister Bratiano and what they call his corrupt regime. The Carolist movement in Rumania may be seen, therefore, in the light of an anti-Bratiano rather than a pro-Carol move. If this be true, anything may happen, and not the least possible is the recall of the onetime Crown Prince...
After nearly ten years of silence the papers are again full of news from Soviet Russia, whether through laxity of censorship or because the Russian authorities feel that they are now ready to show the world what they have accomplished, is not known. In the interim, while the United States and Europe devoted themselves to a fad of things Russian, such as the Chauve Souris, the former dominions of the Czar have been the scene of events of a more serious nature. That Moscow faces the approach of winter with a thieving, lawless swarm of two hundred and fifty thousand...