Word: press
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...statement of repudiation, issued by the Foreign Office press bureau, said that neither the assertions of the mouth place of world Communism nor the interpretations placed upon them abroad represent the Soviet Government's views...
Novel and refreshing, judging by standards now in vogue, are the theories of teaching outlined by the poet Robert Frost in a recent interview with the press. Mr. Frost, who is conducting a weekly class at Harvard this year, holds no brief for stereotyped spoon-fed education. He states frankly that for him education is a take-it- or-leave-it affair in which he will "just keep silent, or even lie down on the desk until it is realized that what I want is self-starters, not followers of a set routine...
British papers, still sold in France, are avidly read for news suppressed by French censors. The London Times and Daily Telegraph run to 16 pages, censored before they are set up in type, without those mysterious omissions that irritate readers of the French press. A typical French daily has only four pages and contains virtually no news except Army communiques. To fill out the sparse fare supplied by the Ministry of Information, editors translate dispatches from British papers...
...bitterly outspoken against censorship were Britain's publishers in the first weeks of the war that Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain was forced to separate censorship from the Ministry of Information, reorganize both. But the French press, except for sly references to Anastasie, is not even allowed to point out the censor's errors. Parisians are still chuckling over a critical essay: titled "Censure et Propa-gande" that appeared lately in L'Europe Nouvelle. The whole article was a blank, and bore the legend: "Censure...
Intricacies. The lank man in the White House whom a large section of the press, North and South and in England, referred to as a "gorilla" proved himself through four years of heartbreaking war to be one of the ablest and most subtle statesmen in history. Step by step, chapter & verse, Carl Sandburg sets him forth as indeed the merciful, mystic and benign being of the monuments, but as also-and with profound consistency-a hard, circumspect, far-seeing politician and manager of men. Lincoln's speeches and writings were the work of a remarkably pure human intellect, always...