Word: suppression
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House, Home Secretary Herbert Morrison accused London's rambunctious Mirror of publishing "scurrilous misrepresentations, distorted and exaggerated statements and irresponsible generalizations . . . tending to undermine the Army and depress the whole population. . . ." Hitherto Britain's censorship has been confined to the suppression of information that might be of value to the enemy. But there is a section of the Defense Regulations (passed in the summer of 1940, when Britain was in imminent danger of invasion) permitting the Government to suppress a paper that undermines the war effort. The Home Secretary talked of suppressing the Mirror...
Still the War and Navy Departments insisted that it is necessary to withhold news of casualties, to conceal movements of troops and warships. They reminded the press that all warring governments now suppress casualty lists...
...competence at Pearl Harbor. They were told that if they did not change their editorial attitude they would be barred from all official news sources-a penalty which would virtually put any Washington newspaperman out of business. On the surface the action looked like an attempt to suppress criticism of the conduct of the war-something far beyond the legitimate function of a military censorship...
...decree, suspending Article 14 of Argentina's Constitution (patterned after the U.S. Bill of Rights), gave Acting President Castillo unchallenged power to prohibit meetings, suppress newspapers, order arrests-but not to inflict punishment...
...would like to do--else why do they advocate it?), it follows then that they and their constituents are in a minority. From this fact it is, I thin, reasonable to deduce that in order to remain in power our hypocritically successful revolutionists would themselves find it necessary to suppress freedom of speech...