Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the first 332,000 votes were counted, U.R.D. had a 2-to-1 edge over the government party, with COPEI trailing. Was a government defeat, entirely unexpected, in prospect? The junta, which had kept the Caracas papers from printing the early returns, suddenly clamped its censorship on all outgoing news cables...
...brief, due for debate in the 60-nation General Assembly, was enhanced by the international make-up of its composers. The three: William DeWitt Mitchell of the U.S., attorney general under President Hoover; Sir Edwin Herbert of Great Britain, prominent London lawyer and wartime director of telegraph and postal censorship; Paul Veldekens of Belgium, law professor and president of the Belgian Supreme Court Defense Lawyers...
Sellers and distributors want the nickel or so profit they can pick up on 25-cent reprints. The crusading spirit, the desire to quelch this net of understated but forceful censorship, does not draw its strength from this group. These men are all too willing to cooperate, and one can hardly blame them. Profit and not principle is their bread and butter...
Essential to such a system of censorship is a feeling of cooperation. Most booksellers, according to Thomas M. Moroney, manager of the Old Corner Bookshop in Boston, are "...not interested in making cases out of these books. I'll admit frankly that I and my publishers are interested chiefly in making money. We don't want to get wound up in these things...
...give a hoot" attitude which the guardians of virtue identify as "voluntary cooperation" is a source of grave danger. It is present-day censorship's trump card...