Word: censorship
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...there are some things which, although carried on under free speech, are only excesses, and in no way promote the purposes for which free speech was instituted and is now supported. Legally, these excesses cannot be prevented without imposing some sort of powerful censorship; and such censorship could not be applied by the government without destroying the liberty which can be so beneficial. Not prohibited by the law, propaganda creeps in and is accepted by many as an almost essential part of freedom of speech. Men may talk on paper-dolls and tin soldiers, but that cannot be set among...
...matters outside his classroom and in expressing whatever views he may hold on this or any other subject of current public policy, Mr. Laski is utilizing a privilege which Harvard has steadfastly accorded to all her teachers. As President Lowell declared some years ago, a university cannot exercise a censorship over the utterances of its teachers without accepting responsibility for everything they do or say. It might not be amiss to suggest to Mr. Laski, however, that, as he is not a citizen of the United States, the amenities of the situation would seem to call for a reasonable measure...
...done by the American press about the war to last for a hundred years, and this is not the normal misrepresentation due to human fallibility and the exigencies of news-gathering. Of course, the governments must bear the largest share of the blame for this newspaper lying, for their censorship's, established avowedly for the purpose of preventing military facts of value from falling into the hands of the enemy, speedily degenerated into deliberate suppression or deliberate propaganda. The worst offenders in this respect have been the English, but our own government in the person of the intolerant, arrogant...
...diplomatic situation abroad, and the allied cause is now paying for that suppression by the split at the Peace Conference. The Fiume question and the newly discovered secret pact between Japan and China are illustrations of how the press has been injured since the war began by the censorship and by government concealment of news. Never again will it speak with the authority it once had and this is the more regrettable because of the gravity of the new issues confronting all the nations of Europe and of the world. With the red flag flying on more than half...
...will be allowed to be connected in any way with college publications, and that the military authorities will, under no conditions, give college papers official recognition. He states that to allow members of the S. A. T. C. to contribute to college publications would require a censorship of those publications by the military authorities, a censorship which is out of the question in view of the pressing duties of these officers. "Moreover," he stated, "allowing members of the S. A. T. C. to write for college papers would necessarily mean that their military work would suffer...