Word: allows
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Army for some kind of military censorship. This and other such suggestions had been turned down by General MacArthur in favor of "voluntary censorship" (TIME, July 24). This ruling failed to recognize that newspapermen might honestly misjudge the importance of a particular piece of information. Nor did it allow for the fact that in the fiercely competitive business of news gathering there are bound to be men whose self-restraint will give way before their desire for a scoop...
Explained the Tribune's editors to Reader O'Toole and other disappointed Capp fans: the omitted strips "constituted a personal attack upon another prominent cartoonist. The Tribune does not allow its reporters, editors or columnists to vent personal malice . . . and it believes the same rule ought to apply to comic-strip artists...
Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru of India sent notes to Truman and Stalin last week, proposing that the Korean war be settled by admitting Communist China to the United Nations. Pandit Nehru reasoned that this would end the Russian boycott of U.N., and thus allow negotiations on Korea to begin among all the interested powers. Stalin, who knows an opening when he sees one, "welcomed Nehru's initiative in trying to restore peace in Korea," said he agreed with the Pandit that "reactivation of the Security Council should be the first step in ending the Korean dispute." "Reactivation...
...country depends on espionage laws, loyalty oaths, and FBI investigations . . . I assure you that these measures are evil and enervating, for they are against the traditions of both science and of the free society in which we live. Let us keep these police measures to a minimum and not allow panic or politics to extend them to areas where they are not needed...
Many of the film's good points are curiously bound up with its faults. By some elaborately contrived plotting, the Charles Schnee script has taste enough never to allow the voice of God to be heard on the sound track (though it cannot avoid letting the actors quote Him at second hand). It also sensibly refrains from letting the radio pronouncements touch off a spree of miracles. While trying to pave the way to heaven with good, nonsectarian intentions, it winds up as a naive theological hodgepodge, finally flattens its concept of God into a fuzzy, sentimental pantheism...