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Government press censors in Germany, Russia, Spain, Italy and throughout South America last week doffed their caps to their colleagues in Poland. Polish censors had done the sort of job that is every censor's greatest ambition. The high command of the Polish Army had known it for weeks, so had the Cabinet, the secret police. Government plans had been drawn up and every preparation made. Yet not until it was all over did the world know that Poland's most powerful son, the shaggy-browed old walrus, Marshal Josef Pilsudski had died of cancer of the stomach...
Novembre is the autobiography of Novelist Gustave Flaubert's adolescence, with special attention to his love affairs. Translated into English three years ago, it was passed by the Federal Censor but set upon by many a guardian of local morals. Last week a New York City court ruled that Novembre is not "objectionable literature," refused to ban it. Said Magistrate Jonah Goldstein: "The criterion of decency is fixed by time, place, geography and all the elements that make for a constantly changing world. . . . The practice of bundling, approved in Puritan days, would be frowned upon today...
Curtly last week President Roosevelt informed Chairman McSwain that the Generals' views were neither his nor the nation's, that should the affair be repeated, he would pre-censor all army testimony before Congress. Mr. McSwain humbly apologized for the blunder...
...vengeance, exacted from citizens of Leningrad for the assassination there of the Dictator's "Dear Friend" Sergei Kirov (TIME. Dec. 10). Correspondents, unable to pry a single fact from the State since it announced that 1,074 Leningraders had been arrested, did get past the Soviet censor last week these bits of circumstantial news...
...British Royal Navy few families are closer to His Majesty than the Im Thurns. When George V was "England's Sailor Prince" he tossed off many a Scotch & soda with Im Thurn cronies. Last week a Sofia dispatch passed by the Bulgarian censor stated flatly that when Rear Admiral Im Thurn landed he "had instructions to urge the military leaders in Bulgaria not to do anything that might lead to abandonment of the monarchist form of government...