Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have seen nothing of this trouble in our newspapers. Did it occur? Did we have a voluntary censorship in this case, or is German propaganda so unbelievably crude as to broadcast domestic items to us which are untrue and which can be easily checked...
...chorus of boos from press and Parliament for bungling its job (TIME, Sept. 18), fortnight ago the British Ministry of Information reorganized, found a new Director General to replace Lord Perth, who became Advisor on Foreign Publicity. But newsmen still refer to British press censorship as "Perth Control...
...negligence but censorship had caused Timesman Birchall to miss his deadline, along with other U. S. correspondents in London. Since the day war began, censors have been reading all news that goes out of Britain by radio or cable. They find little to suppress, but cause long delays that madden newswriters in hours of crisis. The night the Athenia went down they were all in bed. had to be routed out and brought blear-eyed to their posts before reading could begin. By that time radio commentators had got their own texts censored, had told late listeners in America...
...coverage. In the House of Commons Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain had to face a barrage of questions from honorable members who were worried by the scarcity of news. Mr. Chamberlain promised that he would "try to deal with the matter." London's own newspapers, galled by the censorship yoke, were loudly critical. The London Times blamed the Ministry for "a series of muddles and blunders" which, said the Times, the Prime Minister did not deny. Said the News Chronicle: "News is flooding out of Berlin into all neutral countries, and the press of those countries is almost without news...
Instead of relaxing British censorship, at week's end the Government had clamped it down tighter than ever. News-pictures could not be sent by mail or wireless, cable transmission of wirephotos was restricted. No photographs of any kind could be imported into Britain. Most of the war pictures printed in U. S. papers were being taken by German Army cameramen, released by the Ministry for Propaganda in Berlin...