By one swift stroke of the military censorship journalism was throttled.
The censorship has compelled us to participate in this misrepresentation by excising or altering uncontroverted statements of facts on the plea that "they would alarm the people at home," or "have the people of the United States by the ears.
But it is clear that, for a time at any rate, the university, while showing no desire to encourage the art of printing, was quick to establish its control and censorship of books.
The question of Federal censorship of the press was further discussed on March 24th, two weeks before the declaration of war.
For instance, on March 3rd, over a month before the War declaration, the advisory commission indorsed to the Council of National Defense a daylight-saving scheme, and recommended a Federal censorship of the press.
In March 1737 d'Argenson was appointed director of the censorship of books, in which post he showed sufficiently liberal views to gain the approval of writers--a rare thing in the reign of Louis XV.
I exercised no sufficient censorship upon the Tracts.
They pointed out too the way in which censorship was exercised against the smaller newspapers while the Northcliffe press seemed immune.
Shortly after the removal to Beaconsfield he was summoned to give evidence before a Parliamentary Commission on the question of censorship of the theatre.
They are going on Monday to raise a "breach of privilege" (which is simply an aristocratic censorship of the Press) in order to crush this question through the man who raised it: and to crush it forever.
Let it be no longer censorship by an expert but by a jury--by twelve ordinary men.
If some omnipotent Censorship decreed the annihilation of all his works save one, few people, I imagine, would vote that that one should be Ghosts.
Nor were censorship and a bad start his only problems as a playwright.
The censorship of the Press in particular might be either by Imprimatur required before printing, or by liability to prosecution after.
The censorship of opinions even in a model State would vary in method according to men and times.
The censorship should not allow the publication of things of that sort,” said my father.
The censorship named in "Areopagitica" still prevailed, with the difference that prelates now sat in judgment upon Puritans.
Nothing but a sense of duty can have reconciled him to a task so invidious; and there is some evidence of what might well have been believed without evidence--that he mitigated the severity of the censorship as far as in him lay.
The censorship of Appius Claudius and Caius Plautius for this year (A.
This bridge, intended to unite the nearer bank of the river with Trastevere, but rendered impassable by the fall of several arches in 1598, whence its name of the Ponte Rotto, was commenced in the censorship of M.
The press, thanks to the Charter, was perfectly free, without either censorship or preliminary authorization, and press offences were judged by a jury.
In the second part of the constitution the pope deals with the censorship of books.
He was a man of enlightenment, did much to encourage agriculture, industries and the exploitation of the mineral wealth of the country, founded the Academy of Sciences at Munich, and abolished the Jesuit censorship of the press.
The Jesuits now gained the upper hand; one by one the liberal provisions of the constitution were modified or annulled; the Protestants were harried and oppressed; and a rigorous censorship forbade any free discussion of internal politics.
Since, however, it indicates a censorship in a quarter where refinement is perhaps least to be expected, it should not be suffered by us to pass unnoticed.
I do not wish to condemn those who have been obliged to remain silent either because they are in the armies, or because the censorship which rules in countries involved in war has imposed silence upon them.
There, too, was exercised a sharp censorship over both actors and audience.
This was the most stringent censorship to which the stage has ever been subjected.
It was in the discharge of the censorship that this determination was most strongly exhibited, and hence that he derived the title (the Censor) by which he is most generally distinguished.
The censorship of the press was likewise reëstablished with iron rigidity, and the publishers purchased the meager immunities they were permitted to enjoy by the payment of whatever pensions the Emperor chose to grant to needy men of letters.
Footnote 17: In general, for the censorship of the press see Welschinger: La censure sous le Premier Empire.
The censorship was more rigid than ever, and Fouché was instructed to stop indiscreet private letters from the army.
The ponderous sledge-hammer of the censorship was apparently forged to kill a gnat.
If you establish a censorship of the press, the tongue of the public speaker will still make itself heard, and you have only increased the mischief.
But in the countries in which the doctrine of the sovereignty of the people ostensibly prevails, the censorship of the press is not only dangerous, but it is absurd.
A judicial functionary who should open proceedings, and usurp the censorship of the laws, would in some measure do violence to the passive nature of his authority.
Putnam, “The Censorship of the Church of Rome,” Vol.
The evil effect of the censorship of their own Press by the German Government is to hypnotise the thousands of Government bureaucrats into the belief that that which they read in their own controlled Press is true.
There is a peculiar connection betweencensorship and police.
As weeks of war became months and months became years, the censorship screws were twisted tighter than ever, with the result that docile editors were often at their wits' end to provide even filler.
You see," remarked a very decent German official connected with the military censorship department, "everyone of these Britishers is different.
An interesting point in the censorship debate was the disclosure of the fact that the local censors do what they please.
But the reports of the detailed charges against the Government constitute, even as passed by the German censorship for publication, a remarkable revelation.
Recently the Government censorship has been particularly active against hooks, collections of national songs, and post-cards.
The police are armed with the censorship of the internal postal correspondence, telegrams and telephones.
The egregious Sir Robert Anderson has just explained in Blackwood how he established a sort of unofficial censorship of morals at the English Post Office.
The source of the deepest gratification to me is the fact that the Censorship Committee of the United Circulating Libraries should have allowed this noble, daring, and masterly work to pass freely over their counters.
Let him establish his confounded censorship at his front door, or at his drawing-room door.
Of course, that even the suggestion of a censorship should spring from such a personal and trifling cause is very scandalous.
I should have objected to a censorship even of scandalized history, for no censorshipever cured a population of bad taste.
The Censorship Committee must justify its existence somehow.
May '10] More interesting information has accrued to me concerning literary censorshipin the British provinces.
Among other matter which the United States Post Office censorship has recently excluded are the following items: An extract from an article in the Fortnightly Review.
A Canon Lambert in every town would demolish the censorship in less time than it took the Hebrew deity to create the world and the fig-tree.
I repeat that the only argument against a censorship is that it is extremely harmful to original literature of permanent value; such an argument does not make any very powerful appeal to authors.
First, it requires a censorship to determine what periodicals are "magazines" whose advertising pages are to be taxed, and what are the educational and religious periodicals which are to continue to enjoy what the President calls a "subsidy.
Such a censorship would be a new feature in postal administration, and it would seem to be a thing very difficult to work out on any fair basis.
