Word: censorship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...move swiftly, even though you cannot report all you see. I am certain to see you all again in various localities of the front where I shall often go to see with my own eyes how our soldiers are ready to march, fight, and conquer. . . . Under our rather strict censorship, however, no information of Italian military moves may be given, and no name of commanders may be mentioned...
...Censorship may kill authentic news, but it is fine fertilizer for rumors. Harvesters of that exciting crop last week garnered the following stories from East Africa. ¶ Having already visited Harar, Ethiopian headquarters in the South, Emperor Haile Selassie motored last week to Dessye, main Ethiopian headquarters in the North, over a road especially repaired to make the journey possible. Dessye greeted the Emperor with arches of leaves, transparent banners, and a delegation of policemen imported from Addis Ababa to keep order. Red Cross signs, traditional marks of an Ethiopian brothel, were hastily taken from the numerous houses...
Precisely as extralegal and august as national cinema censorship in the U. S. is Britain's Board of Film Censors, a body whose president is paid $10,000 a year by the British film industry. Last month the Board's president, red-faced, intolerant Rt. Hon. Edward Shortt died. Last week the British cinema industry picked as president of the Board of Film Censors one of the most distinguished and worldly men in the realm, William George Tyrrell, Baron Tyrrell of Avon, holder of Britain's No. 1 diplomatic job, the Ambassadorship to France, from...
...clue to British censorship is that it tries to keep people from thinking about what might upset them. About things normally censorable it is far more tolerant than Will H. Hays. The British Board of Film Censors objects to scenes showing mental disorders, the preliminaries to childbirth, drunken women, cruelty to animals, miscegenation, police brutality, lovable criminals, the Royal Family and the U. S. expression "nerts." Furthermore the Board always tries to do what it thinks the British Foreign and Home Offices would want it to do. Thus, it prevents British citizens from seeing anything that might make them dislike...
...ministers and officers, must be respected, and people must not be upset or told too much. Observers last week thought Lord Tyrrell as a censor would be tolerant of social and sexual themes, intolerant of political themes. Actually he will look at comparatively few pictures. The chief work of censorship will be carried on as usual by the Board's elderly secretary, J. Brooke Wilkinson...