Word: ironhandedness
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In the days before Stalin's death, only six non-Communist newsmen worked and lived in Moscow. Others could not get permanent visas or, even if they could, decided that ironhanded Russian censorship made working in Moscow almost useless. By last week, with the Communists stepping up their "peace...
In five years as a Moscow correspondent for the New York Times, Harrison Salisbury has worked under a double handicap. In Moscow Russian censors never passed a word of his copy that did not fit the Communist line; in New York the Times usually ran Salisbury's dispatches with...
France has been just as slow in making way for nationalist aspirations in Morocco as it once was in Indo-China, with results that eventually may be just as bad. For the past nine months, as a French resident put it recently, "Morocco has been living in an acute state...
Among the 1,400-odd newspapers and magazines of Spain, only one is free of ironhanded censorship by the Franco government. The exception is Ecclesia (circ. 17,000), official weekly organ of the Spanish Catholic Action group. Ecclesia owes its freedom to its powerful chairman, Enrico Cardinal Pla y Deniel...
Informed on by the Reds, Lacerda was jailed by the police for two weeks. When he got out, he was hired by Press Lord Assis Chateaubriand. He was soon running "Chato's" news service, did so well that at 28 he was named editor of O Jornal, Chateaubriand'...