Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...handful of colonels, a truckload of captains, down to a group of students who were supposed to start demonstrations in the street as soon as the assassinating had properly begun. Last week Rumania lay paralyzed by its worst assassination scare to date. The Government clapped on an iron censorship, pooh-poohed "a thing which usually should be regarded as nothing more than mere news." Police called in foreign correspondents who had slipped out "mere news" stories, lectured them and held the New York Times' correspondent Dr. Eugen Kovacs for six hours. The favorite substitute story was that the officers...
...down. Reenforcements of police blocked the street at both ends, dispersed the crowd before the audience, which waited inside ten minutes to cheer Cinemactress Bergner, emerged. Next day the real significance of the disturbance became apparent. Catherine the Great, which had been passed by the Propaganda Ministry's censorship department and which had been sold out for a week in advance, was summarily banned by the Reich Film Chamber. The Propaganda Ministry issued a statement that the incident would serve as a warning against the future admittance of other films with Jewish actors...
...inevitable failure of Hitler to make them into realities. I think that once faith in the success and truthfulness of the Nazi programme is undermined the Propaganda Ministry will function with just about as much force as it does in, say, France. There is no evidence to show that censorship is successful merely because it is thoroughly repressive. The Russia of Alexander III was certainly subjected to as stringent a repression as is modern Germany; yet in spite of this revolutionists were more active and numerous in Russia than anywhere else on the face of the globe...
...stage, Keith's presents "Midway Night" and even the fan dance of Rosalie fails to satisfy. Knowledge of Boston's airtight censorship dispels any thought that you get something for nothing...
...Censorship has created a situation where you can only hint that a man is keeping a woman. You can't show him unlocking the door of her house, but you can show him in her bedroom...