Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days before Stalin's death, only six non-Communist newsmen worked and lived in Moscow. Others could not get permanent visas or, even if they could, decided that ironhanded Russian censorship made working in Moscow almost useless. By last week, with the Communists stepping up their "peace offensive," Russia had more non-Communist correspondents than at any time since World War II (except for such special occasions as the Foreign Ministers' conferences of 1945 and 1947). More than 40 U.S., British, French, Canadian, German and Indian newsmen were covering Russia, many on guided tours. The German and Indian...
...roadblocks of censorship suddenly appeared on the normally safe college debating circuit during the past academic year, Obstruction begin soon after the National intercollegiate Committee on Debate and Discussion selected the number one topic for argumentation: "Resolved--That the United States should attend diplomatic recognition to the Communist Government of China...
Both of the military academics were next to throttle debaters, although no one wanted to take the responsibility for the ban. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles publicly denied he had any part in the censorship, as did Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson...
Although the censorship continued for the academic year, it served to underline the fact that restriction on freedom of debate dressed in the clock of "our interests" were no more valuable than the Emperor's clothes...
...Atlanta, in the city's first test of movie censorship since the Supreme Court's ruling against New York and Ohio censors last year, Loew's Inc. asked an injunction against any future ban on Blackboard Jungle (currently ranking sixth in box office receipts-see above). Loew's also asked the court to rule that Atlanta Censor Mrs. Christine Smith Gilliam acted improperly in banning the film on grounds that it was "immoral, obscene, licentious and will adversely affect the peace, health, morals and good order of the city...