Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sentenced to prison terms without trial. For refusing to sign the Communist-inspired Stockholm Peace Appeal more than 500 priests were barred from their classrooms. Seminary buildings at Wroclaw (Breslau), Olsztyn (Allenstein) and Opole (Oppeln) have been seized by the state. The religious press was being strangled by censorship. Religious instruction in more than 1,000 public schools ended when the schools were turned over to a Communist Association of Children's Friends...
...delegates were well aware, as the report pointed out, that censorship in Argentina meant the summary closing of newspapers in some cases ("At the beginning of the present year, 50 newspapers were closed in a single day"), and the slow strangling of others deemed too powerful to be done in at one blow...
Loud Cheers. The chief target was La Prensa, one of the world's great newspapers, and its editor & publisher, broadbrowed Dr. Alberto Gainza Paz. A delegate to the conference, Dr. Gainza Paz symbolized for the delegates the fight against censorship, and each time La Prensa's name was mentioned, the delegates cheered loudly...
...work against it-and all hemisphere censorship-the newly constituted Inter-American Press Association decided to mobilize its strongest weapon: the force of public opinion. Henceforth, complaints againt the suppression of press freedom in any of the Americas will bring on an investigation by the association, whose 45 directors include Dr. Gainza Paz. If any country refuses to permit the investigation, that fact will be given "the greatest publicity possible...
There are, however, other decisions that might be considered as showing a trend to the right. AT the same time it handed down the Miami decision, the Court refused to review an Atlanta censorship case. City officials there had prohibited the showing of "Lost Boundaries"--a picture dealing with racial prejudice--under an ordinance allowing exclusion of any film "adversely affecting peace, health, morals, and good order...