Word: press
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hungary's Roman Catholic bishops who, jointly with their Primate, had staunchly held out against a government plan designed to make the Catholic clergy virtually employees of the state. The minister told the four holdouts, on pain of imprisonment, to resign. They flatly refused. Nevertheless, the Communist press trumpeted the news that Hungary's Bench of Bishops had agreed to their terms...
General Peyton C. March, bearded Army Chief of Staff in World War I, reached a spry 84 in Washington, passed up his usual birthday press conference to spend the whole day with the four generations of his family who came to call...
Should the press submit to voluntary censorship in peacetime? When Defense Secretary James V. Forrestal put the question to a committee of press, radio and newsreel representatives last spring (TIME, March 15), he got a short no. The responsibility for keeping military secrets, the committee decided, rested on the armed services; they should not give out "secret" information...
With this view many working newsmen wholeheartedly disagreed; they felt that such a policy would be an open invitation to military men to slap the "top-secret" stamp on matters of legitimate public interest. Such newsmen felt that the press has the right to know what is going on; it should be responsible for keeping vital military secrets in peacetime just as it did in wartime...
...first annual report last week (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), Secretary Forrestal agreed. Wrote he: ". . . It is the responsibility of the press, radio and other agencies which gather and disseminate news, not to publish information which would violate the national security . . . I agree, that in peacetime no type of [official] censorship is workable or desirable...