Word: gag
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...CRIMSON welcomes the receipt of the communication printed below in the hope that it may dispel any rumors to the effect that a gag rule has been applied in the management of the communication department. Through out this year many letters have been received, most of which have been printed. Those which were not published were judged inadequate in that they were either anonymous, or written in a childishly flippant and comic-supplement style. Where a serious letter, keeping within the bounds of parliamentary decency was concerned, the CRIMSON has never refused to print the writer's statements, except...
...more than two British papers which dare defend the conscientious objectors to military service or to propose peace. Meetings for discussion of peace are broken up by rowdies. The Defence-of-the-Realm. Act has been twisted from its purpose of preventing information from reaching the enemy into a gag-law to prevent intelligent criticism of public interests...