Word: stricting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...press conference. Strolling the palace grounds, he met (by carefully arranged coincidence) six aging Japanese newsmen who had "covered" the Imperial household for a decade, with never an audience. They bowed low. Asked the Emperor: Did the newsmen have enough to eat? Had they been bombed out? Then, under strict orders to ask no questions and to write no stories, the newsmen bowed again. The press conference was ended...
...Under strict orders to stay out of China's still-limited civil war, the Americans were the targets of fierce Communist complaints that they were practicing "armed intervention." From beautiful Peiping, in the heart of embattled North China, TIME Correspondent William Gray cabled a survey of the U.S. dilemma and China's plight...
...factors helped. Since the dismissal of General George S. Patton in Bavaria, U.S. authorities had greatly speeded up denazification. They had also moved to increase German participation in German rule, a step which the Russians considered intelligent. Soon all local and county government would be in German hands, under strict U.S. supervision. The Russians were still way ahead in the revival of German political life, but the Americans were catching...
...Soviet Union is the only one of the great Allied powers that retains a strict wartime censorship of news written by foreign correspondents. . . . Censorship in peacetime of all dispatches relating not only to military affairs, but to politics, economics, cultural affairs and to every aspect of life . . . destroys the value of foreign correspondents in a free world and has created a general distrust abroad of all news emanating from the Soviet Union. "Soviet censorship ... is dictatorial and arbitrary. . . . Some censors are insufficiently acquainted with the English language to understand the material submitted to them ... are often uninformed...
...research would be kept within strict bounds. Release of nuclear energy in amounts "of military or industrial value" would be controlled. Fines for willful violation of the future law were reduced from $100,000 to $10,000; imprisonment from ten years to five...