Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fellow travelers of the younger set from all over the world, and for any other ingenuous souls who could be enticed along. Until this year, the circuses were always staged behind the Iron Curtain, with plenty of Red police to keep things moving by the numbers, and press censorship to blank out any slipups. But last week, when the pink pipes of Pan sounded for the Seventh Youth Festival in neutral Vienna's vast Prater fairgrounds, there was trouble, trouble everywhere...
Under federal law, a radio or TV station that grants time to a "legally qualified candidate for any public office" has to grant equal time to his rivals. The same ridiculous law, now under attack by Ike as well as radio and TV stations, bars the station from "censorship" of what candidates say. Back in 1956, WDAY in Fargo, N. Dak. granted equal time to A. C. Townley, independent candidate for U.S. Senator (he lost), and a farmer association attacked in Townley's speech sued WDAY for damages. Ruled the Court, 5 to 4: since WDAY was only doing...
...argued that the Communists' censorship of all but approved foreign authors was a fair indication of their intellectual freedom, and the suppression of Tibet typified China's disregard for agreements and readiness to settle issues by force...
...press, with honorable exceptions, has shown little fire about the affair, moving Paul Johnson to write heatedly in the left-wing New Statesman comparing Hola to concentration camps and British people's apathy to that of Germans under Hitler-only worse, for Germany had the excuse of press censorship to claim ignorance of what was going on. The London Times declared that "it is lawful to use such force as is necessary to prevent escape, but not to compel unwilling men to work," and concluded that the government-sanctioned Cowan Plan "led directly to the fatal result...
...frightening thing about the censorship of the Playhouse 90 drama, Judgment at Nuremberg, by the eliminating of reference to extermination in "gas oven" [April 27], lies not so much in the censorship as in the awful realization that the person or persons responsible for this idiocy can be and are employed in policymaking positions in a major American industry, and can and do make decisions of this kind...