Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hear: that China had at last stiffened her backbone and was going to fight Japan. In the past six months the Japanese Government has shown a marked tendency to modify its truculence, and in the past two months the Chinese Government has begun to show itself astonishingly bolder. Drastic censorship in both Tokyo and Nanking has delayed and blurred this greatest Far East news story. By last week, however, it seemed clear that the present which her bantamweight Premier & Generalissimo was giving his country on his 50th birthday was a heavyweight and possibly a knockout blow of Chinese statecraft, ending...
Just now leaking past Asia's censorship is the fact that Generalissimo Chiang has been building an elaborate line of cement pillboxes for machine guns and digging scores of miles of trenches so disposed as to make possible resistance to a Japanese attack launched from North China upon Central China in which are Shanghai and the capital, Nanking. South China, rebellious against Chiang only a few weeks ago, has now again acknowledged the Dictator's rule, but the great feature of Chiang's successful struggles during the past five years has been his way with Chinese Communists...
Newsstand sales in the British Isles are the virtual monopoly of a Pickwickian middle-class firm on the walls of whose offices hang life-size portraits of members of the family who died for Queen (Victoria) & Country. It was not a matter of direct government censorship last week but of Pickwickian family pride that for the first time all sales of U. S. newspapers and magazines which mentioned King Edward and Mrs. Simpson (see p. 16) abruptly ceased in England. This was such risky tampering with freedom of the press that those responsible retired, self-abashed, behind closed doors. Queries...
...week to observe such travelers absorbing their first facts about King Edward and Mrs. Simpson from Manhattan's shipnews reporters. Though to these newsmen it seemed that the incoming Britons were deliberately evasive, actually most of them were sincerely bewildered products of the most subtle and effective press censorship in the world, a censorship whose chief weapon is constant official British reiteration that "there is no British censorship."* A distinguished British Innocent Abroad of the week was Miss Irene Mary Bewick Ward, M.P., a Conservative stateswoman accustomed to deliver to women's clubs in all parts...
...that the broadcasting companies have clamped down on one party or another during the last few weeks is not borne out by the facts. The tuning dial has run the gamut of colors from the purple and gold of economic royalty to the bright red of communism. Censorship is not the issue, for time on the air has been sold to all comers...