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Word: censorships (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...those outside France, who feared De Gaulle's well-known propensity for going it alone, they could take consolation in his choice for Foreign Minister, Career Diplomat Maurice Couve de Murville, a stanch supporter of NATO. At midnight of his first day in power, Premier de Gaulle lifted censorship (see PRESS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Men & Means | 6/9/1958 | See Source »

...Pflimlin's Vice Premier, and said he would even be willing to serve as Under Secretary of Beaux-Arts. In the Assembly, Pflimlin demanded emergency powers -the right to hold suspects without trial, to make searches at any hour, to deport citizens from troubled areas, to impose full censorship and to close movies, theaters and cafes. Working with unprecedented speed, the Deputies gave him the powers he wanted within the day -and did so by one of the biggest majorities (462 to 112) accorded any French Premier since World War II. Pflimlin brought in as Minister of the Interior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: I Am Ready | 5/26/1958 | See Source »

...National Association of Secondary-School Principals' directive [urging members to "question the continuation of subscriptions to TIME and LIFE-TIME, April 21] can in no way be construed as censorship. In educational circles, canceling a subscription is what is known as a critical and dynamic re-evaluation of our selective skills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 12, 1958 | 5/12/1958 | See Source »

...Despite censorship by an overzealous P.I.O., word leaked out of some of hip-flipping Crooner Elvis Presley's activities at Fort Hood, Texas. He has advanced to acting assistant squad leader, donated new furniture to the company recreation hall, and according to a fellow trainee, "when he's free at night he goes to the telephone center and makes calls. On weekends the place is flooded with girls, and they drive him around the post...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, may 12, 1958 | 5/12/1958 | See Source »

...sect considers any "attack" on it too wicked to be tolerated in the public press. Would any but a group unsure of itself deny its critics the opportunity to sell their points of view in an open market of ideas? Is that which must protect itself by such censorship really worth protecting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHY NOT BROTHERHOOD? | 5/5/1958 | See Source »

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