Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Indiana's Senator William Jenner, Internal Security Subcommittee chairman, objected to Canadian censorship of "evidence vital to the security of the United States alone" and asked the State Department to forward still another note to Canada. This time Secretary of State John Foster Dulles politely declined, explaining that he thought the Canadians were "on solid ground" in their insistence on tight control of the interview. Then Gouzenko, who has turned uncommonly talkative after six years' silence, announced that he had decided not to be interviewed, lest he endanger his family. That seemed to settle the matter-unless Gouzenko...
...month things were different in Portugal. Censorship was relaxed. The ban on political meetings and speeches was lifted, criticism of the government was allowed, and an opposition political committee (though it could not call itself a party) was permitted to campaign. It contested 28 of the 120 seats in the National Assembly, all held by Dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar's boys. Then, precisely at midnight one day last week, the "political campaign" was declared at an end, and Portugal turned back into one man's pumpkin. "Silence! Silence!" said the final campaign headline in the opposition newspaper...
...burlesques houses were closed as a result of an action by the city's board of censorship on Thursday. At that time, the shows were deemed "obscene" and "vulgar" by Garret H. Byrne, Boston District Attorney...
...city owes Miss Goodneighbor and her friends a groveling apology. Neither the stresses of public life nor political maneuvres should intrude in the world of art. In Boston, as elsewhere, the exotic dance should be as unfettered by censorship as it is by clothing...
President Fulgencio Batista last week lifted press censorship and restored constitutional guarantees that were suspended after the crushing of last July's bloody Santiago revolt. The news was welcome in Cuba, and might have been greeted even more enthusiastically if Batista had not put through a tough "Law of Public Order" during the state of emergency (TIME, Aug. 17). That law remains on the books, and if its penalties for any Cuban who "spreads, publishes, has published or transmits false rumors . . . against the nation's dignity [and] the credit of the nation or the government" are rigorously applied...