Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after thinking the whole thing over, the Times decided that it would be equally misleading to label only its Salisbury stories "Censored," so long as censorship in a variety of forms also exists all the way from Egypt to the Dominican Republic. Summed up the unhappy Times: "How is news subject to all these varying degrees of censorship to be accurately labeled...
...Times had no solution. Nor did newsmen have any solution to the problem of getting the news in the face of such censorship and of even harsher attempts to terrorize them. Fortnight ago, Czechoslovakia indicted able Times Correspondent Dana Adams Schmidt (along with 20 other Westerners) for espionage and subversion. After dutifully filing a straight story to the Times on the charges (which he denied), Schmidt fled to the U.S. zone of Germany. That left only three regular Western correspondents in Prague, all of them exposed to the kind of attack that had forced able Reporter Schmidt to leave...
...latest country to vanish behind the censorship curtain is Communist China. On the Chinese mainland last week, there was one Western newsman left-a French correspondent at Shanghai who could not file a word. All the rest had withdrawn to the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong, where they were trying to cover the story of China's 450 million people from publications printed in Red China and by picking up stray bits from "well-informed travelers" (see FOREIGN NEWS...
Three Little Pigs. But censorship is by no means confined to the Soviet world. In Egypt, King Farouk, incensed by an article about his philandering, recently banned LIFE from his kingdom "forever." In the Western Hemisphere itself, despite U.S. attempts to spread the gospel of press freedom to Latin America, government interference with the internal press and outgoing cables is still common practice in some countries...
...powerful as Juan Perón is in Argentina, he has not dared to shut down critical La Prensa (circ. 400,000) outright. But he has used the newsprint rationing to take paper from La Prensa and give it to his friends. He also exercises a censorship on outgoing cables, has delayed stories and even arrested U.S. newsmen. Fortnight ago, responding to U.S. criticism, Perón kicked out his press purger, José Emilio Visca (TIME, June 12) ; but it was too soon to say whether that represented a change of policy or just a change of faces...