Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japanese womanhood to say, as does the little red brochure bought by many tourists and entitled How the Social Evil is Regulated in Japan, that 'ten percent of the female population of all ages' is engaged in prostitution. But it is exceedingly significant that, with a press censorship as strict as that in Japan and as ready to suppress publications which are undesirable, the little red brochure is allowed to be distributed and sold...
...earnest Bolsheviks since the Revolution of 1917. With returning bourgeois gaiety, 100,000 Russians were encouraged to enjoy a madcap masked revel which lasted nearly all night in the Park of Culture & Rest, the State supplying masks and soft drinks, with all alcoholic tipples barred. Since the habit of censorship has become ingrained under Stalin, arriving revelers were inspected at the gates by censors who said that their purpose was "to keep out joy killers." Barred was a Russian who arrived in a tight black suit painted to make him look like a skeleton...
...nearly seven hours the Sprengstoff continued to explode. Every explosion caused a new fire, every fire a new explosion. Telephone connections were cut off and iron-clad censorship clamped on all news dispatches. Secret police reached the scene almost as quickly as the ambulances, closeted foreign correspondents who attempted to gather first-hand news. The Associated Press did succeed in getting to the bewildered Burgomaster of Reinsdorf while the town still burned. His account...
...possible the Chinese people have been kept in ignorance of their Government's capitulation. Over 100 newspapers in North China have been suppressed. Chinese and Japanese censorship remained ironclad. Japanese bombing planes thundered menacingly over Peiping. In Tientsin with feverish activity Japanese architects and landscape gardeners started doing over a onetime Imperial residence as if it might soon be occupied by Japan's puppet Emperor Rang Te of Manchukuo, the onetime authentic Emperor Hsuan Tung...
...bombing planes, the latter thundering low over Tientsin's foreign concessions. Promptly Governor Yu, whose dismissal Japan had demanded, was dismissed and departed southward with his troops. Five trainloads of Government troops in Peiping were next sent south by Chinese War Minister Ho who prudently imposed iron censorship to keep the troops from knowing why they were being withdrawn, fearing they would mutiny if they knew his treachery to China. Japanese dispatches quoted China's Ho as saying privately to Japan's North China Chief of Staff Col. Takashi Sakai: "I now fully understand what the Japanese...