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...their brief stay in Morocco. On greeting Bernard Ford, one of the Pacific Coast's leading investment brokers, we asked him to choose between a flying trip to Marrakech or a motor excursion to Rabat. He answered: "Look here, before anything else let me go to a newsstand. I want to get the TIME copies I've missed since we left New Orleans...
...months later it was announced that the ban was lifted. Each issue of TIME, however, would have to be reviewed by the Customs for "objection able material" before being released. For a while newsstand copies were admitted, but subscriber copies met a postal censorship which developed into an outright, though unannounced, embargo. No matter how hard he tried, Correspondent Johnson was never able to see the Postmaster General...
...import license for newsstand copies was cancelled...
...that juncture we stopped sending newsstand copies of TIME to Argentina and wrote to our subscribers there, offering to refund their money. On June 14 we were advised by Ambassador Bruce that Foreign Minister Bramuglia had asked him to say that "the entire matter of TIME was fixed up satisfactorily and that TIME could move freely through the mails." We sent along some token shipments. No copies got through. We tried again in November. The result was the same. Meanwhile, all of our applications for an import license were consistently refused...
This is reading period. In order to allow you to concentrate on studies without the temptation of something much more pleasant, the Crime will suspend publication tomorrow. It will be back at your favorite newsstand or doorstep Monday...