Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Also under the decree, press censorship was lifted and all constitutional guarantees resumed their force. Spain was declared a republic in 1873, but two years later the House of Bourbon was restored. Last week Spanish Republicans and Spanish Monarchists squared off for the most exciting electoral battle of the Century in Spain. If the Republicans win the Bourbons may fall again-may of course pick themselves up again too. Their friends will control the polls...
...German military helmets by an army of cats which oppose an army of mice is offensive to national dignity" (TIME, July 21). Canadian censors ruled against another brand of sound cartoon because a leering fish in it writhed up to a mermaid and slapped her on the thigh. But censorship is only a form of public testimony that Mickey Mouse and other animated cartoons are an important and permanent element of international amusement. Sergei Eisenstein, famed Russian director, has said: "They are America's most original contribution to culture...
...There is not now and there will not be in the future under my administration any censorship on outgoing news about Cuba. . . . Your own United Press leased wire is in constant and unhampered contact with New York. ... I have, to my very great regret . . . recently been compelled, in the interests of the continuance of public order, to suppress the publication of certain old and well known Havana newspapers...
...found the German nation seething with militarism and discontent, ready to seize the film, which most foreigners have regarded as not in the least derogatory to the German character, as a means of propaganda against the Government in the time of a national crisis. Seen from this angle the censorship would appear like a weak surrender to the demagogues of the Hitlerite gang at a moment when the Reich needed, as never before, to present a firm front to its citizens and the world...
Night after night, while protests against the film piled up in the office of the Reich Film Censorship Board, the Nazi menagerie made its appearance in the theatre, amplified last week by the presence of a number of garden snakes that slithered over the feet of the audience, coiled under orchestra chairs. Socialist Prussian cabinet members and officials did their best to express approval of the film by going to the theatre in a body one night, applauding loudly. Said Prussian Prime Minister Dr. Adolf Braun...