Word: censorship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...away, Conservative President Mariano Ospina Perez proclaimed a state of siege. In a volley of swift decrees he also: 1) indefinitely suspended Congress (which has a Liberal majority); 2) took away the power of the supreme court's Liberal majority to nullify any of his acts; 3) imposed censorship on press, radio and cables; 4) banned meetings and demonstrations; 5) empowered government officials to dismiss all remaining Liberal employees...
Enough Japanese editors had read Reel's book (it was sent to them by the U.S. publishers) to assure that some day, when the Occupation withdrew, it would emerge from censorship. Then, instead of heightening respect for American good faith and readiness to acknowledge a wrong, The Case of General Yamashita might engender a bitter disillusion...
Against prompt charges of political censorship, the Maryland board argued: "Immorality . . . extends to the entire moral code"; therefore, a film "based upon deceit and misrepresentation" could be banned as a "moral breach." Prodded by the Baltimore Sunpapers, Governor W. Preston Lane Jr. asked his attorney general whether the censors were within their legal powers. Ruled Attorney General Hall Hammond...
Last week the American Civil Liberties Union raised an outraged voice. In a letter to Governor Lane, Playwright Elmer Rice, chairman of its National Council on Freedom from Censorship, branded the board's proposal "flagrantly unconstitutional." Said Rice: "If the ... board is to have the power to ban pictures because the subjects are not presented with truth and sincerity, there will be very few Hollywood productions indeed which could ever be shown. [If] censorship on this ground should be limited to documentary subjects, then the attempted restrictions on free speech become all the more obvious ... If the board...
Hulbert and Steiner, arguing for the negative, held that minority censorship was an application of the right of free speech...