Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hand in his official car amid the plaudits of the Greeks. All this was news to most of the assembled Dukes and Duchesses in Balmoral last week, for such scenes have been rigidly kept from the British newspaper-reading and newsreel-viewing public by a form of British self-censorship which in the circumstances is lèse majest...
...only censorship but bombing of the press is an old Cuban tactic and last week some daring Cubans, who were rumored to be in sympathy with the radical Spanish Government, decided to destroy two Havana newsorgans considered most sympathetic with Spain's Whites. A 12-year-old touring car in which were concealed 1,500 sticks of dynamite and a time-clock detonator was parked outside the editorial offices of Diario de la Marina. Meanwhile a truck parked in front of the newspaper El Pais blew up with an explosion heard for miles, wrecked El Pais...
Looking ahead Dr. Angell saw a bleak prospect in the attempts at censorship already with us in the form of taxation on universities and oath bills...
...Times has been chary about reporting Mrs. Simpson but last week she graduated to full Times coverage of her movements. These were snipped in Britain last week from the current issue of TIME, prompting the New York World-Telegram to cartoon and say: "The story was not scandalous. The censorship must have proceeded from some officious and oversensitive minor official while His Majesty was gone, for there was nothing in the story to offend the King...
Annual Interview. Each year during the Party Congress, correspondents are invited by Adolf Hitler to lunch in the lofty castle which frowns down on Nürnberg and afterward censorship is suspended by Der Führer's order to permit them to cable whatever they like about the Annual Interview...