Word: censorship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dictature Consolidated. Throughout the week there were signs that King Alexander and General Zivkovitch are rapidly consolidating their dictature, slowly relaxing their censorship, reorganizing the various ministries of State, ruthlessly suppressing all political opposition...
Telephone censorship was sufficiently relaxed so that one U. S. correspondent actually shouted to his Vienna office from Belgrade certain confirmative details respecting General Zivkovitch's role in the royal murders of 1903. Also the German newspapers Berliner Tageblatt and Vossische Zeitung, which were barred from Jugoslavia for criticizing the dictatorship, are now admitted freely...
...trickster, if any, was Soviet Dictator Josef Stalin, who banished Trotsky a year ago for the crime of organizing a political opposition. Stalin brooks no opposition. Last week he muzzled correspondents in Moscow with a censorship so drastic that the only thing really known about Trotsky was that he had left Alma Alta...
Arriving in Hollywood, Will Hays, interviewed on censorship, said: "Motion pictures are just as necessary in their way as agriculture. . . . Any effort to censor and cut . . . is as great an outrage as to cut the tender tips of newly sprouting corn...
Coming directly on top of the controversy raised by Dr. Harry Elmer Barnes' discussion of a "new religion" the general reaction on the layman of this sensationalism cannot fall to be unfortunate. Censorship and the passage of anti-evolution laws is enough evidence of the prejudice existing against anything which might disturb traditional opinions. Probably the only way to improve such a condition is by gradual education, and the press can do its share by being as informative as possible. To be sure, there is no particular sensation in the fact that a scientific man believes in evolution, but just...