Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Radio Tokyo building last week, the U.S. Army set up a new bureau to deal with military security. Its name: Press Advisory Division. Its function: to censor all military dispatches and photos from the war area. General MacArthur's headquarters, which has been reluctant to establish censorship, still insisted it had not done so; it had merely established an "advance security check." But all correspondents were ordered to submit dispatches to the bureau before sending them. Since the Army does not control outgoing radio and cable channels, it is still possible for correspondents to send dispatches that the censors...
Most of the correspondents thought that censorship was long past due. Under the vague and sometimes conflicting directives of "voluntary censorship," correspondents were saddled with the responsibility of deciding security problems for themselves. As a result, they were often in hot water (TIME, July 24 et seq.). At other times, correspondents in Korea sat on good stories, for fear of breaking security, only to find that the same stories had been released in Tokyo or Washington and that they had been scooped...
...precise, genial artilleryman, Hickey asked the newsmen for their ideas on what should be done. At the suggestion of the A.P.'s Russell Brines, the Army set up the Press Advisory Division, a staff of officers who could be consulted on security matters but who had no censorship powers...
...present, President Truman had decided to invoke only part of his powers. The mobilization that he decreed would fall far short of total mobilization, with its millions in uniform and 24-hour-a-day factories, its censorship and brownouts, its ration books and black markets. Partly, this reflected some of the lingering doubts inside Harry Truman's own Administration on the wisdom of a total commitment now to a garrison state. Partly, the apparent caution merely recognized the inevitable lag between intent and performance. With Charlie Wilson on the job, more rigors and more vigor could be expected...
...troubles with censorship, as even censors could plainly see last week, is that anyone can get into...