Word: suppresses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Section 2D, passed by Parliament during the invasion scare of 1940, gives the Government power to suppress any publication without trial. So far, 2D has been used only against the Communist Daily Worker. But when the Churchill Government threatened to use it to silence the London Daily Mirror (TIME, March 30) Britain's editors were aroused...
Reischauer also stated that, Boston papers to the contrary, the Japanese are no more likely to become panicky under fire than the Londoners or the people of Berlin. He admitted that the inherent tendency of the Japanese to suppress their emotions might result in a violent outburst of jitters, but stated that, the Japs have proved their courage in the harrowing experiences of the 1923 earthquake, which Reischauer classed as "worse than any air raid...
...Press. In the House of Commons, following Home Secretary Herbert Morrison's threat last fortnight to suppress the Daily Mirror, the two sides clashed in a full-dress debate over freedom of the press. Despite the recent Cabinet shakeup, the Churchill Government is still more Right than Left. But the press, moving steadily to the Left, week by week has become more outspoken in its criticism of the Government. When Churchill saw that the Government's position was slipping further, he ordered Morrison to crack down. Leftists and countless other Britons had the horrible recollection that suppression...
...suppress the Mirror, if it did not mind its tongue, Secretary Morrison threatened to use Section 2D of the Defense Regulations (which allows the Government to suppress a paper without warning or trial), a law that was passed by a slim majority in the invasion-threatened summer of 1940-passed with the express statement by the Government that it would not be used except in case of dire peril. Liberal M.P. Wilfrid Roberts drew cheers when he recalled these facts...
Evidently Churchill, believing in the righteousness of his efforts, had made up his mind to sacrifice freedom of the press if he thought it necessary to preserve morale and confidence-for a censorship that once gets a broad charter to preserve morale can proceed ruthlessly to suppress press freedom. (Said London's Times bluntly: The purpose of censorship "must not be to maintain morale-not because morale should not but because it cannot be maintained by suppression. The lesson of France on that point is final...