Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their diocesan papers in recent months they would have heard precious little of their Holy Father's declining health until it began making secular front pages daily. Stubbornly denying until recent weeks that the Pope's ailments were at all serious, Vatican functionaries set up a censorship of telephone calls, the word always perforce being: "The Pope is well." When the Pope learned at Christmas time what was being printed about him, he ex- claimed: "I must get up, sit on the sedia gestatoria and bless the pilgrims." Last week when few doctors could find any reason...
...official B. B. C. in London for the first time refused to let His Master's Voice Ltd. make and sell in England phonograph records of a royal broadcast.* It would be a travesty of British facts not to say roundly that there was "the heaviest possible British censorship emanating from official quarters" last week. Actually this never ceased. Before, during and since the crisis, no London newspaper has seen fit to print anything seriously embarrassing to His Majesty's Government. By printing the clowning jibes of G. B. Shaw and the earnest expostulations of H. G. Wells...
...Once again British censorship was defeated, even before His Master's Voice Ltd. were squelched. Within a few hours after the broadcast, Manhattan's mammoth Macy's department store was selling excellent records at $1 each, shipping them on request to England as forbidden fruit...
Today a wave of reaction challenges the freedom of American Universities. Censorship was clamped upon the "Daily Texan" because of anti-big business editorial policy. Senator MacNaboe has sallied forth to purge Cornell of un-American activities. Dorgan has shielded the youth of Massachusetts from propaganda inspired by Moscow Gold. And now the LaFollette machine resentful of the political prestige of President Frank and in ill-defined personal disagreement with his policies, is hacking at a man whose eminence and liberalism have placed him among the foremost leaders of American education...
...intolerance of the Spaniards embroiled in the fratricidal strife has become so intense that an impartial foreigner cannot be friendly with two Spaniards whose political beliefs are even slightly in conflict. There is no freedom whatever allowed journalistic investigation and the strictest censorship imaginable is imposed on all news dispatches sent out from Madrid...