Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expected (TIME, Oct. 9) to announce the downfall of Britain's month-old Ministry of Information. After bitter onslaughts in press and Parliament, Mr. Chamberlain intimated that the Ministry's unwieldy staff had been drastically curtailed, its most vital function transferred to a new Press Censorship and News Distribution Department of the Government...
This week, in the great white Bloomsbury building which the Ministry took over from the University of London, the Censorship Department went to work under a new head: Sir Walter Monckton, 48, onetime legal adviser to King Edward VIII. Each Government department now issues its own news as it did before the War, has its own censors, responsible to Sir Walter. From their Whitehall offices bulletins go to Bloomsbury. There newsmen write dispatches, submit them to a second board of censors before they can be released...
Each participant in the coming tryouts will deliver a three-minute speech on one of the following topics: (1) "Resolved: That the United States embargo on shipment on shipment of arms to belligerent nations should be repealed: (2) "Resolved: That the Ludlow Amendment should Impose censorship on all communications in the interest of American welfare...
Meanwhile, with the fear of government in their hearts, radio networks, after a week of fiddling, put a code of self-censorship of war news in writing, had it blessed by the National Association of Broadcasters and FCC's Chairman Fly. Main provisions...
...Philadelphia, Superintendent Alexander J. Stoddard formed a "war strategy board" of teachers to "keep war hate out of the schools," warned teachers to be wary of discussing war dispatches. Said he, with the defensive cynicism which censorship has made almost universal: "War news has no place in the classroom unless it is definitely tagged as rumor...