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...rest of its bans. Army post exchanges may not sell British newspapers. The PXs may not even sell the Air Forces' own Official Guide (525,000 copies printed)-it has an execrable portrait of Franklin Roosevelt as a frontispiece. These were added last week to a suppress list which already includes such "dangerous" intellectual weapons as Charles Beard's The Republic and Catherine Drinker Bowen's biography of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Yankee from Olympus (TIME, May 8).* Any of these, said the Army, might influence the 1944 elections...
...attack on two Harvard undergraduates along the Charles River, says "Harvard hushed it up." There is no basis for fact in this statement. Neither the police authorities to whom the attack on the two students was reported nor any representative of the press were asked by me to suppress the news. As soon as the attack was known to me and I had seen the students, I telephoned to the police and sent the boys to see the police. Also a reporter from one of the papers talked to me about the incident. I gave him all the facts...
...incredible happened last week by personally signed decree of President Edelmiro Farrell. His high-handed Government, had long sought an excuse to suppress Doňa Zelmira's paper,* had found a flimsy one: that an editorial criticizing proposed economies of Government-run municipal hospitals had failed to confine itself to "constructive criticism" (a decreed requirement of the press...
...statement to which the Secretary of State referred was made by Tom Dewey in a New York City speech last fortnight (TIME, April 3): "When we find the State Department requesting the British censor to suppress political news sent to American papers by American correspondents abroad, it begins to amount to a deliberate and dangerous policy of suppression of the news at home...
...institute improvements such as night flying, which domestic lines had begun years earlier. As for Juan Trippe: he "desires all the advantages of the private-enterprise system and none of its disadvantages. ... He would seek Government support and subsidy for his private air transport monopoly . . . permitting him to suppress commercial competitors in the field and yet hold the system under private commercial control...