Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First, he asked the U.N. General Assembly to adopt a resolution urging 1) state control of "any form of propaganda of a new war ... in press, radio, cinema and in public statements," i.e., government censorship on the loosest of terms; 2) settlement of "outstanding international questions through negotiation between the powers"; 3) "withdrawal by the four powers of their occupation forces from the territory of Germany to their national frontiers" - suggesting that the Red army might pull back to Russia, not Poland, if the U.S. forces pulled back to the U.S., not France; 4) "dismantling of military bases on foreign...
After trying six months of voluntary self-censorship of comic books by the publishers themselves. New York state decided that self-censorship is not enough. Last week Governor Averell Harriman signed into law a bill making it a crime (maximum penalty: $500 fine, one year in prison) to sell "obscene and objectionable comics" to minors, or to use such words as "crime, sex, horror, terror" in comic-book titles. The protests of comic-book publishers were joined by book and newspaper publishers; they pointed out that the wording of the law was subject to loose interpretation as to what...
...must still stand a test in court. Once before when the New York state legislature passed a similar censorship law, the U.S. Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional...
...area, some of whom allegedly had not seen a nurse or other white woman in 18 months, WACs would be locked within their barbed-wire compound at all times except when escorted by armed guards." The New Guinea WACs, as everywhere, did their job-in this case mostly mail censorship. Said their male supervisor: "[They] possess an uncanny knack for picking up hidden security breaches...
...view of public information, the sphere of such political intriguing would be greatly widened. If the Administration sincerely believes that present security procedures are dangerously inadequate, let it undertake a systematic and logical revision of the classification system. Its efforts so far have only raised the ugly threat of censorship and have added to the national burden of insecurity...