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From flowered arbors came soft laughter and then the swirl and rustle of silk and satin as Brazilian debutantes swayed to the congas and rumbas of a red-coated samba band. Mothers and grandmothers danced, too. Ruiz Guiñazú's strict Argentine social code frowns on such informality. But he watched. Occasionally he tapped his foot, and smiled...
...short, the publication of virtually any news about the U.S. war effort is now forbidden unless specifically sanctioned by the Government. Since all information is of value to the enemy in one degree or another, Censor Price's code could be literally stretched to a ridiculous extent. That it might be so stretched, few editors feared. The majority trusted Censor Price, an A.P. veteran, to give them the best breaks he knew...
...press itself was largely responsible for the issuance of the code, hoping thereby to escape from the uncertainty of not knowing what was printable. Actually, the list, couched necessarily in blanket terms, solved few problems for the press. Most of the important news of today comes under its terms and no reporter or editor can check everything back with the censor. It did not relieve newsmen of their main risk, which is not merely of being fined and sent to jail under the Espionage Act, but of being accused of being enemies of their country...
...code undoubtedly left much to be desired. It went on the tacit assumption that any information given to the U.S. public was thereby given to the enemy. It did not make even a theoretical concession to the principle that news should be kept from getting out of the country (by peripheral censorship) so that the public at home can be allowed to have significant information. By making censorable all news of the progress of production it at least theoretically denied the public any chance to know and criticize if the President's arms program (60,000 planes...
...press as a whole was not critical of the code. It was so anxious to be patriotic that it accepted the code without public criticism. It shared in part the attitude of famed liberal William Allen White's Emporia Gazette. Dropping the syndicated column Washington Merry-Go-Round, Editor White explained: "We. felt the authors, Mr. Pearson and Mr. Allen, were too anxious to print . . . matters which would offend the censor and possibly give aid and comfort to our enemies. . . . These young men are good reporters. They are honest and conscientious but just a shade too enterprising for these...