Word: censor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Japan's claim to political dominance in China and the Far East has been scrapped. What this claim means was illustrated during the World War when Japan insisted on acting as the official censor for foreign communications to China. This contention of militaristic Japan, however, has now been overthrown by the Washington Conference, and nearly everything done by Japan in the Far East for a decade has been considered by the nine nations of the Pacific...
...responsible; or perhaps the Government has just recently learned to read French. At any rate, Gargantua must give way to "The DemiVirgin", as "Caliban" had to yield before "Simon Called Peter". Terence and Horace had better look to their morals, and Boccaccio keep clear of the censor, for a new Battle of Books is brewing. Certainly it is remarkable how the mind of the modern generation is kept pure and unsullied, and all indecencies removed far beyond it reach. When the act of sending a copy of Rabelais through the postoffice will finally be made illegal, we shall have reached...
...with more in New York than in Massachusetts. The picture as seen in the one place will differ materially from that which is shown in the other. What further contortions the already highly elastic plot is doomed to undergo! Therein lies the fallacy of trying to censor the play after it is finished. Particularly objectionable parts are, indeed, removed and the piece rewritten and patched up; but the scissors cannot eliminate that much more subtle and deadly, influence of "atmosphere". Yet unhealthy atmosphere". Yet unhealthy atmosphere, such as sordid or criminal backgrounds, scenes of "night life", etc., is what...
...would call your attention to the fact that performances of this buffoonery of Messrs. Gilbert and Sullivan scheduled for the Savoy Theatre, London, during the World War, were prohibited by the British censor, at the request of the Japanese Embassy in London, on the grounds that it held the Ruler, people, and institutions of an Allied Nation up to ridicule, and tended to create a hostile feeling for England on the part of the Japanese...