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There were signs that Chiang had bent a shrewd ear to the warnings of his country's liberals and of China's true friends abroad. Chungking's strict censorship seemed to be relaxing. Allied correspondents, on a trip to the long forbidden Communist zone, were allowed to report warmly on the Communist village setup, land reforms, guerrilla tactics against the Japs. In Nationalist China, hitherto quiescent democratic groups issued a manifesto: "The formation of a democratic system should not be postponed any longer. We warn our fellow countrymen that if democracy is not realized in wartime, what...
...antitrust laws have long forbidden the formation in the U.S. of business associations which restrain trade. But the Webb-Pomerene Law, 1918, permitted the formation of export associations provided they do not restrain trade...
...Forbidden Land. Cagily, Kent Cooper sent A.P.'s story on the protest to U.S. editors on a hold-for-release basis, io that they would know the censorship score in case the War Department blocked his kick (which it did not). The A.P.'s story was the heaviest indictment yet of non-security censoring. Many papers gave it column-long play. Among the Cooper counts...
...Forbidden News. The A.P. was not the only collector of data on "Jumbo" Wilson's censorship. Other details leaked out. All Balkan stories having political implications had to be sent to Cairo, and Cairo's British censor was notoriously heavyhanded. On Cairo's official taboo list: any story about the National Liberation Front inside Greece; full reports on the Jewish-Arab question...
...competition, frogs jump from the center of a ring. A "jump" is actually three successive .leaps. Official length of the jump is the distance from the center of the ring to the final resting place. A jumping frog's handler (known as a "jockey") is forbidden to touch him after the first leap. Just before the first, the jockey is allowed to give him just one brisk flick, or tickle...