Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tejada clamped on a strict curfew and censorship, began confiscating all arms held by civilians. He also called in the strikers and got their agreement to go back. Happy conservatives rejoiced that a new order had been established, with Paz Tejada as the strong man. Now, they thought, the Communists whom Arévalo had been harboring in some government posts would be sacked, and candidates opposing Jacopo Arbenz would get a fair deal in this year's election...
Apart from physical danger, war reporting was getting more & more difficult. General Douglas MacArthur still refused to impose military censorship (TIME, July 24), but last week the U.S. Eighth Army in Korea threatened correspondents with "disciplinary action" if dispatches gave "aid and comfort" to the enemy. Added the directive: "Criticism of command decisions or of the conduct of Allied soldiers on the battlefield will not be tolerated...
Later in the week, Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson did issue a belated memorandum to the armed forces. It ordered censorship-at-the-source on such specific military information as strength of units, status of equipment, date of sailing time, etc. But there was still nothing but individual judgment to prevent newspapers from publishing such information if their reporters got it on their own hook...
After reading a detailed A.P. story on the sailing of elements of the First Marine Division last week, Senator Scott Lucas of Illinois denounced such stories as "almost criminal." Majority Leader Lucas called on President Truman to ask the press to impose self-censorship at once, or face a Government censorship. In Lucas' home state, the Chicago Sun-Times made a Page One pledge to swear off news of troop departures, names of vessels, and destinations, except in official announcements...
...such isolated pledges would not do the trick. In World War II, Byron Price, an ex-A.P. executive, had ably directed an Office of Censorship that provided 1) a specific code to inform the press on what information endangered military security, 2) a voluntary agreement to observe these restrictions, and 3) a civilian board of interpretation and appeal. That had worked well then, and many U.S. editors thought it would work well...