Word: suppression
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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MOSCOW--Vladimir Krushkov, Secretary of the Soviet information Bureau, charged today that William Randolph Hearst and Col. Robert R. McCormick, American newspaper publishers and the Rev. Charles E. Coughlin have taken "every step to suppress the increasing demand by American public opinion for the opening of a second front...
Almost every editorial page in the nation considered the two-week news blackout a dangerous precedent. The correspondents agreed that it was perfectly desirable, for the sake of the President's safety, to suppress advance information about his itinerary. But they saw no need to suppress the news of where he had been for days afterward, no need to keep all but three press-association correspondents from accompanying...
...means a friend of Fiorello LaGuardia, seized this climactic outburst to suggest that the Mayor needs a psychoanalyst. "The Little Flower," wrote Pegler, "has been going haywire lately. . . . He owes his job to the decent press of New York, which he hates because he can't suppress news of his own absurdities. . . . The papers have tried to cover up his alarming instability...
...month after the British decision to suppress Mohandas K. Gandhi's Indian National Congress party, Winston Churchill informed the House of Commons that the situation in India "gives no occasion for undue despondency or alarm." But from the facts he gave, and others he ignored or distorted, it was clear that the British will neither admit to themselves how serious unrest is in India, nor will they yield to Gandhi...
...There is a Christian morality, there is a human morality, that impose duties and confer rights. These duties and these rights derive from the very nature of man. They may be violated. No mortal has power to suppress them...