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...Congressmen, however unsympathetic they might be toward Isacson's foreign policy views, were disturbed at this infringement of their right to go anywhere and investigate anything. If one Congressman could be forbidden a passport, so could others. Besides, if any citizen of the U.S. had freedom to speak his mind at home, why should he be denied the same freedom in Europe? Congressmen were not alone in thinking that the State Department, instead of using its passport power to curb its critics, would do well to label them properly and let them talk their heads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Bad Ammunition | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

...gives a bird's-eye view of American life in the boom year of 1929, complete with stockmarket quotations. It graphically describes the rotten, disgusting (but pretty juicy) goings-on-how every bathtub brimmed with forbidden gin; how the men, half-crazed with lust and easy money, rushed at the women and seduced them incessantly, on the hills, in the streets, in the valleys, and particularly on the beaches; how the women didn't care a fig, and responded to the assaults in the grossest way. But under their rumpled beds lurked such killjoys as the Gastonia strike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Pot in Every Chicken | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

Because he made films for a German-controlled company, Director Clouzot was forbidden to work for two years after the liberation; then he made Quai des Orfevres (Jenny Lamour) which is just as unflattering to the French as The Raven, and just as popular-with Frenchmen. Author Chavance says stoutly of his Raicn: "It is no more anti-French than Chicago gangster pictures are anti-American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Also Showing Mar. 22, 1948 | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

...Papalexiou, 50, spoke first. "All children between 3 and 14 are being registered by the Andartes," she said. The rebels had told the parents that the children would be sent to good homes in the Slav "democracies." "Would the children come back again?" asked'an investigator. "It was forbidden to discuss the matter," replied Athena...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILDREN: As the Twig Is Bent | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

...sort of censorship, Nat S. Finney, 44, Washington correspondent of the Cowles Bros.'s Minneapolis Star and Tribune and Des Moines Register & Tribune, last week won the $500 Raymond Clapper memorial award. Last fall, Finney reported, President Truman had approved a "security code" under which Government employees were forbidden to disclose stories "embarrassing" to Government officials. The code was dumped when Finney led the press howl of protest. At the White House Correspondents' dinner, Finney had the satisfaction of getting his check from President Harry Truman, who had made the bobble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: A Plug for Leaks | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

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