Word: suppression
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wartime criminal law gave the Imperial Rule Assistance Assn. (Japan's two-year-old totalitarian party) apparently unlimited powers to suppress criticism of the Government...
...Crimson on the Ehrlich-Alter executions was an unfair one, particularly because the Soviet military court which tried the two men cannot, for obvious reasons, release details of the trial. However, a few general facts are known, facts which the Polish embassy in Washington has vigorously attempted to suppress. If ninety per cent of Harvard's undergraduates are uninformed on this incident, Mr. Passano should have undertaken to explain to them these facts...
...whenever he can dig it out in Washington. But the truth is not always palatable, either at home or abroad. The Allies do not enjoy hearing of strikes, Washington bungling, domestic political quarrels-but the Axis does. Yet Davis, reared under a free press, could not and would not suppress such facts. Thus one of his big problems is to explain the U.S. satisfactorily to the world...
What began as a completely informal Student Council decision to suppress the names of the Council's Nominating Committee has now developed into what resembles an attempt to establish a new precedent. Nominees have been submitted to the Classes of 1945 and 1946, but still the Council resolutely refuses to make public the identity of those who drew up the list of candidates. This Star Chamber proceeding has no parallel in the Council's history, and is a violation of the theory upon which a body representative of the undergraduates is founded...
...attached to the subject. TIME, failing to note that its information had not been submitted to Canadian censors, reported that German prisoners at Bowmanville rioted when their guards attempted to manacle them (after the Dieppe prisoners had been chained by the Germans). The Canadian Government had evidently intended to suppress the story. When the story came out, the Canadian Government made a strong protest to the U.S. State Department. Though the protest seemed designed to discredit the substance of the story, actually Ottawa confirmed the fact that there had been a riot. TIME was roundly rebuked for certain inaccuracies...