Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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WASHINGTON--Copyright, 1938, by United Press--The Navy Department has been informed that Japan is constructing a powerful "hit and run" fleet that may revolutionize naval tactics, the United Press learned tonight. Despite a screen of censorship this government has been advised that the island empire is building a type of super-cruiser that has no match from the standpoints of speed, mobility and striking power...
...only member of the School Committee opposed to backing Timility, thought it a shame to suppress "anything that might allow people to think and to keep their minds off such froth and foolishness as you find on every newstand." He added that the city officials behind the censorship of printed matter are "conservative and too apt to make a flight from life...
...tight bottleneck for Central European news. Correspondents in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Rumania, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Greece kept Vienna bureaus of the great press organizations primed. Thence the news of Central Europe-much of it brewed by good imaginations in Viennese coffeehouses- flowed out to the world comparatively free of censorship...
Violently upset last week was this clearinghouse press system. During the first hectic days after anschluss (TIME, March 21) the lid of Nazi censorship was harshly clamped on Vienna's journalists. Telephone calls for foreign correspondents were tapped, mail was watched, teletype communications halted. When Adolf Hitler made his belated Vienna speech, 55 newsmen, the bulk of the foreign corps, were summoned to receive press passes, promptly caged at the point of Nazi guns, allowed to watch the scene only through the Chancellery windows...
...fate of most other Jewish, part-Jewish and non-Jewish physicians who mortally feared & hated Nazi domination last week remained hidden in the coffin of Nazi censorship. A Jewish Nobel Prizewinner, Professor Otto Loewi, University of Graz physiologist, was merely arrested. Jewish psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud and his wife were deprived of their passports and ready cash...