Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hungary and generally on the Continent, censorship is for political, not moral, daring. When the Wong film was submitted to the Royal Hungarian Censor last week, he was scandalized to observe that the white man who, kissed the yellow girl was a Grand Duke. He promptly suppressed the film on the ground of its ''anti-monarchical tendencies...
Three Plans were before the Senate: 1) Censorship of foreign books, as at present, by U. S. Customs agents whom Senator Smoot called "men of education and broad information, with a knowledge of the world," but whose "knowledge of the world," according to Senator Cutting, "is how to get from the Bowery to the Hudson River piers and open trunks and leave them in confusion." 2) No censorship, leaving control of obscene books entirely to the States. 3) Censorship by the U. S. courts, as a body of intelligence and literary discrimination above that of Customs agents...
Through its protagonists the censorship conflict threw into relief two phases of western culture-the Old West, personified by Senator Smoot, Utah-born. Mormon-educated, moral, righteous; and the New West, personified by Senator Cutting, New York-born, Harvard-educated, "sophisti-cated," broadminded...
...Result of the great Decency Debate, achieved without a roll-call vote, was to take literary censorship away from the Customs agents and put it in the hands of the U. S. District Courts. The Customs agent would seize the volume but only a judge and jury could pass upon its obscenity, order its destruction. The book importer would have all the privileges of appeal to the highest court. Senator Cutting declared himself satisfied with this liberalizing compromise, predicted that Customs agents would not be so reckless in seizing books if their opinions had to go before a court. Senator...
Correspondents must write their news in such form that it can pass over British wires. With the story just warming up last week, and while censorship was comparatively lax, they cabled that the showing of newsreels taken as St. Gandhi set out on his march is barred in all theatres in the Bombay Presidency. Soon the news gate too will slam shut?that is, if there is any trouble...