Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tells Lord Beaverbrook, hastily summoned from a proposed trip to Arizona, of his resentment at Prime Minister Baldwin's summoning of the Cabinet to interfere in His Majesty's proposed marriage to twice-divorced Mrs. Simpson (TIME, Dec. 7). A break obviously is near in the news censorship self-imposed by the British Newspaper Proprietors' Association. Vehemently, Edward VIII urges his right to marry Mrs. Simpson upon Publisher Beaverbrook whose fingers remain, for the moment, crossed, though later his Daily Express goes cautiously pro-King & Mrs. Simpson...
...spits out the gag which has kept 99% of His Majesty's subjects in England and India from ever hearing of Mrs. Simpson, much less hearing that the King is resolved to marry her. The Yorkshire Post does not actually mention Mrs. Simpson by name but opens the censorship breach sufficiently for the London Times to "thunder" at the King next morning (still without naming Mrs. Simpson) and for the London News Chronicle, largely owned by the Cadbury's chocolate family, to be the first paper in the Kingdom to name the King's intended wife...
London: As censorship breaks down and headlines scream, frantically milling crowds, for the first time since the Armistice, buy London papers so fast that presses whirling at top speed cannot meet the demand. In the House of Commons lobbies, politicians think the public reaction is hostile to the King and scamper for the Baldwin bandwagon. "I was for the King when it was purely a question whether he should be permitted to marry whomsoever he should choose," says beetling-browed Labor Radical James Maxton, "but when it is a dispute between him and the Government, I cast my lot with...
...Snuggery: His Majesty, talking frequently by telephone with Mrs. Simpson, has won the first objective, that of smashing what has been in fact if not officially a ruthless censorship and gagging of the British Press in efforts to prevent King Edward's subjects from knowing of his resolve to marry Mrs. Simpson and prevent them from making their verdict known...
...nebulous matter. Newspapers are in theory at liberty to say what they choose about any person and any issue; in practice they are controlled by partisanship, in politics, and by the "entrenched greed" that owns them, in general policies, However, up to the present, there has been no actual censorship as such--no board of gimlet-eyed and thimble-brained sycophants to delete everything that might be of interest to a reader with more than half a mind. At the University of Texas such a situation now exists; and, incredibly, has existed for five months...