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...virtual reign of terror prevails in Bulgaria, in which ordinary civil rights are almost nonexistent. Such elementary democratic principles as free speech and free press criticism are taboo. The writer, having just returned from a six-weeks' stay in Bulgaria, is convinced that the vast majority of the people in that country are bitterly disillusioned. They ardently are hoping for early Allied action to establish a democratic regime...
...most prosperous. Last year, from the S.M.U. and 87 other campaigns, the company grossed $600,000. In 1943, A.C.B. rounded up pledges for $440,103,451, probably got more in 1944. To do this, it employed 60 pleasantly efficient male organizers and publicists. (Professional women organizers are usually taboo. Most volunteer workers are women, will not take orders from other women...
...loudest drums ever beaten on the once taboo topic of venereal disease were pummeled last week by the War Advertising Council. Launching a new poster campaign with the slogan HIDDEN ENEMY-V.D., the Council appealed to U.S. advertisers to unite in a nationwide drive against syphilis and gonorrhea...
Slacks and shorts, not long ago a real menace, must go, says the students Government. And clothing is to be applied "mere fully". "Lounging too, is taboo, and dire tidings avail those who cannot resist the temptation to smear the face which should be all earn lectures...
Forbidden News. The A.P. was not the only collector of data on "Jumbo" Wilson's censorship. Other details leaked out. All Balkan stories having political implications had to be sent to Cairo, and Cairo's British censor was notoriously heavyhanded. On Cairo's official taboo list: any story about the National Liberation Front inside Greece; full reports on the Jewish-Arab question...