Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soviet diplomatic reception in 1945, when commissars still talked to Western newsmen, Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov proposed a toast to the Associated Press's Moscow chief, Eddy Gilmore. "You don't like censorship," said Molotov. "What would you say if I proposed reciprocity?" The puzzled Gilmore downed a one-gulp toast to "reciprocity" and, like Molotov, turned the glass upside down over his head to show that it was empty. With a drop or two of vodka still trickling down his nose, Molotov walked on, leaving Gilmore wondering what he meant. Next day the Russians suddenly stopped censorship...
...Recipe. From the start of the cold war, censorship was always ironhanded, often mysterious. In 1947, when Gilmore filed a light feature story on how Russian housewives cook shashlik and beef Stroganoff, the censor deleted everything in the story except the recipe, apparently because he thought the discussion of Russian eating habits was intended to make them look barbaric. Newsmen never set eyes on the censors or knew who they were. They simply took three copies of every story to entrance No. 10 at the Moscow Central Telegraph Office. If the story cleared quickly, newsmen got it back...
Last week, at the 200th session of the four-power Allied Council, the Russians gave in, finally agreed to abolition of the four-power censorship bureau in Vienna. They have also abolished censorship in their own zone, the last of the occupation powers to do so. The U.S., Britain and France had ended censorship in their zones six years ago, and 38 times had formally asked the Russians to do the same. Now, with Russia at last saying yes, all Austria was free of censorship...
Batista suspended all constitutional rights for 90 days, slapped a censorship on press and radio, and started a round-up of oppositionists. He also alerted the air force and navy against a sea invasion. Next day, in a television show from Camp Columbia outside Havana, he announced that the revolt was over. But no one in Cuba doubted that others would follow...
...martial law has not been lifted, as the editors of Gómez' El Siglo found out last week. Angered by a tactless editorial which seemed to take Peru's side in the Haya controversy, Rojas Pinilla closed El Siglo for a day. Censorship was also strict, though seemingly impartial, at other papers. Rojas has promised to return a measure of press freedom, after working out a set of "newspapermen's commandments." This may be less onerous than Gómez' capricious prior censorship, because it will put the rules down in black & white...