Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bitterly outspoken against censorship were Britain's publishers in the first weeks of the war that Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain was forced to separate censorship from the Ministry of Information, reorganize both. But the French press, except for sly references to Anastasie, is not even allowed to point out the censor's errors. Parisians are still chuckling over a critical essay: titled "Censure et Propa-gande" that appeared lately in L'Europe Nouvelle. The whole article was a blank, and bore the legend: "Censure...
When Leon Blum, onetime Premier of France, was attacked as an "unconscious" German agent by the reactionary Paris Matin, he wrote an answer for his own Socialist daily, Le Populaire, that began: "We don't see how censorship could prohibit us from making a legitimate reply." The rest was censored. Next week Editor Blum tried a trick that worked for Georges Clemenceau in War I: he sent copies of a censored article by mail to members of the Chamber of Deputies. They were seized by postal censors...
...edit'l pp. crities, incld'g lekes, Elmer Davis, U. S. Senator Fletcher seem to say that the plutocracy aided when necessary by an allied Proletariat machine rules completely in what Stuart Thomson (W.W. in East: N.).: U.S.A.: Authors: Canada: Interna'l London) calls "censorship by exclusion: autocracy by preemption" in publicity and opportunity in his effort to restore his beloved Middle class in expression and property (homes sec Princeton Survey) confiscated by quadrupled taxation. Some of Thomson's articles on his program N.Y. Her-Trib Dec. 21 '36, Feb. 20 '30 N.Y. WLD Telg'm July 10 '39 editl...
...been datelined London or Paris, most propaganda-wise readers would have passed it by with an indulgent smile. But it was datelined Berlin, signed by 27-year-old Seymour Beach Conger, newly appointed chief of the Herald Tribune's Berlin bureau. It .had slipped easily through German censorship, which concentrates on suppressing "undesirable" writers, not undesirable words...
Author Thorp's funniest and most tactful chapter deals with reform in the movies and such organizations as the League of Decency, the Hays office, the State boards of censorship. Censors in Virginia, she finds, are most concerned about sex; in New York with political corruption; in Kansas with drinking, nose thumbing. She admires the versatility with which censors safeguard U. S. morals. Sample: when the script for Zaza called for a female character to shout at an admirer, "Pig! Pig! Pig!" the vigilant Hays office ordered: "Delete two pigs...