Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...variation on the fighting words of Marine Captain Lloyd W. Williams, who, when ordered to retreat at Belleau Wood in World War I, replied: "Retreat, hell! We just got here.") Passed by a special ruling of Hollywood's censors, the forbidden screen word "hell" has already met with censorship troubles elsewhere. When a San Antonio radio station objected to the word in a commercial, the picture was referred to on the air as Retreat, Heck...
...Censorship," cried Rivera. He threatened not to let any of his easel paintings go to Paris either...
...meeting of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, Minneapolis Tribune Chief Editorial Writer Carroll Binder announced bluntly: "This is a report on a project launched by this society which has boomeranged." The project: a U.N. newsgathering treaty that would free the press of the world from censorship and other restrictions (TIME, May 23, 1949). As the global-minded U.S. delegate to the U.N.'s conferences on freedom of information, 56-year-old Editorialist Binder knew just what went wrong. Spurred on by the most high-minded intentions, the U.S. had marched starry-eyed into the jaws of a trap...
...provisions was clear: any unfavorable story by a correspondent, no matter how factual, could be construed as "propaganda" or injurious "to national prestige." Pakistan, for example, wanted to extend everywhere the Moslem rule that forbids images of Mohamed; the Egyptians wanted the press to follow Egypt's own censorship rules and thus, for instance, ban any news of King Farouk's high jinks; Latin American delegates plugged for amendments that made "unfair" reporting (i.e., unfavorable) of their affairs a crime. Behind these gripes stood the Communists, fanning every spark of resentment against the U.S. and Britain, charging that...
...conferences became a place to gang up on the Anglo-American press and sound off wildly about "outrages" it had committed. And while all the talking went on, nation after nation tightened up censorship and restrictions on the press...