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Bryson, Lyman. "Freedom of Information." In UNESCO's Freedom and Culture, New York, Columbia University Press, 1951, pp. 119-56. B607
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1948, acknowledges the universal right to information. We fall short in realizing this freedom, however, because of economic and political factors. In the first instance, "a large portion of the peoples of the world are still too poor in material resources to make more than meagre use of the machinery for spreading information," and in the second instance, "governments of the world are divided on the meaning of the [word] 'freedom,' and follow different policies in controlling the dissemination of facts."
-------. Time for Reason about Radio; from a Series of Broadcasts on CBS. New York, Stewart, 1948. 127p. B608
Includes two discussions: (1) Lyman Bryson, CBS consultant on public affairs, and Charles A. Siepmann, former consultant to the Federal Communications Commission, discuss the FCC role in licensing and the "public interest." (2) Robert D. Leigh discusses Freedom and Responsibilities of American Broadcasting,emphasizing that the air belongs to the public, not to the radio industry.
Buchanan, J. W. "Books and Bookmen." Library Review, 100:247-50, Winter 1951. B609
An essay on censorship prompted by recent press reports of Scottish booksellers being prosecuted. While recognizing that some books are "vicious or shoddy or unreal" and have no place in a library that is supported by public funds, "serious books, exceptionally frank in language or theme," cannot be justifiably withheld.
Buchanan, N. B. "Some Thoughts on Censorship." Library World, 37:208-9, March 1935. B610
"We see and hear things in everyday life, which are . . . far worse than any which get into print . . . We cannot very well censor life, so why bother unduly about the books . . . Censorship is so often a form of mental coddling which lowers one's powers of resistance against evil, that it is difficult to appreciate the mentality of anyone who will argue in its favor." Books on sex fall into two classes: the obviously prurient, and the serious work of science or literature which deals frankly with sexual subjects.
Buchanan, Robert W. On Descending into Hell. A Letter Addressed to the Right Hon. Henry Matthews, Q. C. Home Secretary, Concerning the Proposed Suppression of Literature. London, Ridgway, 1889. 38p. (Excerpts in Physical Culture, October 1907 and in Schroeder, Free Press Anthology, pp. 162-67) B611
Buchanan, long a critic of the "fleshly school" of literature, unexpectedly came to the defense of Henry Vizetelly when that elderly Briton was imprisoned for publishing novels by Emile Zola. He urges the Home Secretary to intercede in Vizetelly's behalf. Zola's works, Buchanan states, while unsavory in their examination of "social sewage," should not be regarded as criminal. "It is one thing to dislike the obtrusion of things unsavory and abominable, and quite another to regard any allusion to them as positively criminal." The common people who can read and can afford to buy books are "robust and healthy-minded enough, familiar with the world enough to discriminate for themselves . . . The milliner, will frisk without the aid of Zola, and the young clerk will follow the milliner, even within the protective shadow of a Young Men's Christian Association. Wholesale corruption never yet came from corrupt literature which is the effect, not the cause, of social libertinage . . . The man who says that a book has power to pollute his soul ranks his soul below a book. I rank mine infinitely higher."
Buck, Philo M., Jr. "Milton on Liberty." University Studies of the University of Nebraska, 25:1-41, January 1925. B612 §
Buckingham, Joseph T. Trial: Commonwealth v. J. T. Buckingham, on an Indictment for a Libel, before the Municipal Court of the City of Boston, December term, 1822. Boston, Office of the New England Galaxy, 1822. 60p. B613
Trial for an alleged libel against John N. Maffitt in the New England Galaxy. Buckingham, the publisher, was a ferociously outspoken editor, much after the style of William Cobbett, who engaged in numerous battles of words which sometimes involved him in libel suits. His journal was open to the free expression of opinion. The plaintiff charged plagiarism, falsehood, and licentiousness.
Buckle, Henry T. "Need of Increased Liberty of Discussion." In his Miscellaneous and Posthumous Works. London, Longmans, 1872. vol. 1, pp. 51-62. (Part of a longer essay entitled, Mill on Liberty, appearing in Fraser's Magazine, May 1859) B614
An appeal for liberty of discussion and publication. Minority opinion should have free reign. "We can never be sure that the opinion of the majority is true. Nearly every opinion held by the majority was once confined to the minority. Every established religion was once a heresy." Furthermore, if truth is to triumph it needs to engage in conflict with error. "All hail therefore to those who, by attacking a truth, prevent that truth from slumbering . . . Of all evils, torpor is the most deadly." Buckle criticizes the blasphemy case, in 1857, against Thomas Pooley, who was given 21 months' imprisonment. "It should be clearly understood that every man has an absolute and irrefragable right to treat any doctrine as he thinks proper; either to argue against it, or to ridicule it. If his arguments are wrong, he can be refuted; if his ridicule is foolish, he can be out-ridiculed. To this there can be no exception. It matters not what the tenet may be, nor how dear it is to our feelings. Like all other opinions, it must take its chance; it must be roughly used; it must stand every test; it must be thoroughly discussed and sifted."
Buckley, J. M. "The Suppression of Vice." North American Review, 135:495-501, November 1882. B615
The Rev. Mr. Buckley defends the New York vice society and its special agent, Anthony Comstock. The enforcement of the obscenity laws "cannot safely be left to public sentiment" because of the indelicate subject matter. The Society has adopted the most efficient methods of combating obscenity, has managed its affairs with prudence, and is one of the most important reformatory movements of modern times.
Buckley, Michael J. "State Censorship of Movies." Catholic World, 180:24-27 October 1954. B616
A Jesuit priest argues for state censorship of movies. He criticizes the opinion of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Douglas concurred in by Justice Black-that "every writer, actor, or producer, no matter what medium of expression he may use, should be freed form the censor."
Buckley, William F., Jr., and Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. "The Issue of Free Speech on Television." TV Guide, 11:15-19, 25 April 1964. B617 §
Two views on the "fairness doctrine" in broadcasting. Mr. Buckley: "I would favor passage of a law . . ." Professor Schlesinger: "The ideal should always be more debate . . ."
Buehler, E. C., comp. American v. British System of Radio Control. New York, Wilson, 1933. 361p. (The Reference Shelf, vol. 8, no. 10) B618
A collection of articles assembled to represent pros and cons on the debate topic. Resolved: That the United States should adopt the essential features of the British system of radio control and operation.
Buick, William G. "Statement of Principles and Policies on the Freedom to Read." Australian Library Journal, 12:105-7, June 1963. B619
Bullard, F. Lauriston. "Boston's Book Ban Likely to Live Long." New York Times, 28 April 1929, sec. 3, pp. 1, 7. B620
An account of the trial and conviction of Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy in the Massachusetts courts. Bullard describes the hysteria in Boston over obscene books and the fear of the booksellers who no longer have the assurance of the former gentleman's agreement in which the booksellers policed book sales. In the present situation the police, the district attorney, the Watch and Ward Society are all in the act. "It is possible for anyone to have a book suppressed in Boston merely by advancing the idea."
Bundy, June. "Censorship Eases on Aired Lyrics as Acceptance Grows." Billboard, 71:2+, 19 January 1959. B621
Bunzel, Peter. "Shocking Candor on the Screen; a Dilemma for the Family." Life, 52(8):88-102. B622
The author predicts that the trend toward more frank portrayal of such themes as lesbianism, incest, and homosexuality, may lead to further pressures for censorship.
Buranelli, Vincent. "Peter Zenger's Editor." American Quarterly, 7:174-81, Summer 1955. B623
The story of James Alexander, editor of the account of the John Peter Zenger trial, and Alexander's influence on the New York Weekly Journal and the Zenger trial.
-------, ed. The Trial of Peter Zenger. New York, New York University Press, 1957. 152p. B624 §
A modern edition of the celebrated Zenger trial, consisting of a popularly written account of the trial and biographical information on Zenger and his lawyers, James Alexander and Andrew Hamilton. There is also a chapter on the significance of the trial. H. V. Kaltenborn has written the foreword.
Burch, Angelus T. "Free Press and Fair Trial." Journal of the Bar Association of the State of Kansas, 23:352-62, May 1955 B625
A defense of the right of the press to report criminal proceedings. "If we seem to 'usurp' the investigating functions of the police and of the prosecutor's aides once in a while it is merely because they are not doing the job themselves." An address by the associate editor of the Chicago Daily News at a meeting of the Bar Association of the State of Kansas.
-------. "News Media and the Law." Chicago Bar Record, 43:297-304, March 1962. B626
In an address before the Chicago Bar Association, Editor Burch considers such topics as: whether juveniles should be shielded by anonymity, the difficulties of the press in keeping up with the vast amount of court and executive activities of the big city, newspaper libel, and contempt and Canon 20.
-------. "'Trial by Newspaper' Is Often Exercise of a Public Duty to Yell 'Stop Thief!'" Quill, 52(10):7-9, 15-16, October 1954. B627
"The real foe to justice is not newspaper coverage of a trial but indifference and political corruption."
"The Burden of Books." Saturday Review (London), 102:541-42, 3 November 1906. B628
The writer approves of the whimsical suggestion of Lord Rosebery that there be a balance between intellectual imports and exports and that a commission be appointed to eliminate all unnecessary books. "The human spirit would be relieved from an oppressive incubus and there would be a startling burst of originality." In the same vein he suggests that "a University should really be an institution to restrict to its most useful minimum both reading and writing. If an ardent young man has access to a large library he will read too much that is useless either because it lacks quality or because it is obsolete and lacking in authority."
[Burdett, Sir Francis]. "Trial of Sir Francis Burdett, Baronet, before Mr. Justice Best and a special jury at the Spring Assizes at Leicester, on March 23, 1820, on an information for publishing a seditious libel, 1820." In Macdonell, Reports of State Trials, vol. 1, new series, London, 1888, pp.1-170. B629
The case involved the publication of an address to the electors of Westminster which the defendant represented in Parliament and which the government maintained was an incitement to rebellion. Sir Francis was found guilty and sentenced to three months in prison and fined £ 2,000.
Burgess, Herbert R.] Alice's Adventures in Censorland. Boston, The Author, 1930. 4p. B630
Burgh, James. "Of the Liberty of Speech and Writing on Political Subjects." In his Political Disquisitions . . . Philadelphia, Robert Bell and William Woodhouse, 1775. vol. 3, pp. 246-66. B631
The author objects to the unnatural attempts "to lay a restraint" on those who would criticize the conduct of men who undertake to conduct the public's business. Our public officials are not infallible; history shows that in order to preserve liberty we need to have a watchful eye on our public servants. "Punishing libels public or private is foolish, because it does not answer the end, and because the end is a bad one, if it could be answered." The writer reviews the history of criminal libel in English common law.
Burgman, Charles F. Case of Helen Wilmans. [Philadelphia, The Author, 1904?]. 8p. B632
The case involves the Post-Office suppression of literature relating to the religious and mental cure of illness.
Burke, Edmund. "Speech on a Motion . . . for Leave to Bring in a Bill for Explaining the Powers of Juries in Prosecutions for Libels." In his Works, Boston, Little, Brown, 1839. vol. 5, pp. 414-26. B633
Burke supported a bill in Parliament for giving juries the power to try every part of matter referred to them in libel indictments. "If the intent and tendency [of a libel] be left to the judge, as legal conclusions growing from the fact, you may depend upon it you can have no public discussion of a public measure; which is a point, which even those who are most offended with the licentiousness of the press (and it is very exorbitant, very provoking) will hardly contend for."
Burke, Edward L. "The Right of Privacy and Television." Notre Dame Lawyer, 28:389-98, Spring 1953. B634
Notes on cases involving the violation of privacy, 1948-52.
Burke, John A. V. "The Church, the Cinema, and Censorship." Sight and Sound, 17 (66):85-86, Summer 1948. B635
Written by Father Burke in his capacity as a member of the Office Catholique International du Cinema.
Burke, Redmond A. "The Index and Its Implications for College and University Libraries." In Catholic Library Association, Proceedings, 33rd Conference. Louisville, 1957, pp. 78-84. B636
-------. "Student Reading in Catholic Colleges." Catholic Library World, 35:141-46, November 1963; 35:219-21, December 1963; 35:222-23, December 1963. B637
Father Burke discusses types of books in the college library and justifications for book control by the Catholic Church. He describes general classes of restricted literature (Canon 1399) and immoral literature. In part two he considers the treatment of restricted literature in the college library. A final section consists of Better Known Authors and Books Listed in the Index of Forbidden Books.
-------. What Is the Index? Milwaukee, Bruce, 1952. 129p. B638
"The present work attempts to supply . . . a factual description of the modern system of the Church's book legislation with an exposition of its rationale, as expounded by authoritative canon lawyers . . . This present work is written from the point of view of culture at large and in language that should be understood by the average layman, Catholic and non-Catholic." The appendix contains: Censorship of Special Classes of Books, Various Forbidden Authors and Titles, and The Great Books Program. Father Burke is director of libraries, DePaul University, and the book is based on a doctoral dissertation at the University of Chicago, 1948.
Burke, Richard K. "Contempt by Publication." Arkansas Law Review, 1:162-66, Winter 1946-47. B639
Includes the "clear and present danger" test adopted as the rule in the Arkansas courts.
[Burleson, Albert S.]. "Postmaster General Explains to Editors Purpose and Operation of New Law." Editor and Publisher, 50:5, 16 October 1917. B640
A discussion of government policies for dealing with disloyal and seditious publications during World War I.
Burlingame, Roger. "Freedom and the Lone Wolf" Harper's Magazine, 169:82-90, June 1934. B641
"Freedom of speech or of the press we do, according to a current fiction, still maintain. Else how could our friend write what he wrote to the Herald-Tribune or view with alarm the tendency of dictatorship to censor and suppress? The speculation I am about to enter on is this: Suppose our president became in fact a dictator; suppose he forbade all criticism of himself, his administration, his party, or his political thought; suppose, for instance, a censorship as strict as that of Italy or even that of Germany. Suppose that at the same time he removed all of the censorship now imposed by industry and business. Should we then be more or less free in speech and writing than we are now?" The author considers the extent to which industry and trade dominate our freedoms.
Burn, John S. "Books Burned by the Common Hangman." Notes and Queries, 8 (ser. I):346-48, 8 October, 1953. B642
Relates to the suppression of Dr. James Drake's Anglo-Scotia in 1703.
"Burn the Books!" Saturday Review of Literature, 4:273, 5 November 1927. B643
An essay on book burning inspired by Chicago Mayor Thompson's attack on pro-British books. Books are burned not as a convenient way of suppressing knowledge, but rather using fire as a symbol. Opinion must not only be suppressed, according to the book burners, but must be suppressed by violence.
Burnett, Leo. "The Challenge of Economic Pressures on Freedom of the Press." Nieman Reports, 12(4):16-19, October 1958. B644
Advertising pressures to influence editorial policies of the press are infrequent and not generally effective.
Burnett, R. G., and E. D. Martell. The Devil's Camera; Menace of a Film Ridden World. London, Epworth Press, 1932. 130p. B645
Burnham, Philip. "The Outstretched Fist." Commonwealth, 49:364-65, January, 1949. B646
The author denies any question of press freedom is involved in the ban of The Nation from New York City schools. However, he considers the publication "a positive enemy of Christianity and the Catholic Church."
Burr, George L. "Anent Bonfires." Cornell Era, 39:205-9, February 1907. B647
Professor Burr, class of '81, recounts the old custom of the Cornell students who at the end of the freshman year tossed their "all too learned" textbooks into a huge campus bonfire. Burr compares this college prank with the more earnest book burning in the early European universities where students, led by their professors, burned heretical books before they could contaminate readers. He describes Martin Luther's bonfires at Wittenberg. The young, Burr declares, are both the fiercest persecutors and the boldest heretics.
Burress, Lee A., Jr. "Censorship and the Public Schools." In Freedom of Inquiry; Supporting the Library Bill of Rights; Proceedings of the Conference on Intellectual Freedom, January 23-24, 1965, Washington, D.C. Chicago, American Library Association, 1965, pp. 2-28. (Also in ALA Bulletin, June 1965) B648 §
The author notes an increase in censorship pressures in schools, caused, in part, by a greater awareness by teachers of controversial works and a broadening of reading assignments which include these works. He draws upon the recent study of censorship in Wisconsin schools for his comments. He refers to the possible use of professional sanctions against school systems where intellectual freedom is violated. Many school librarians and English teachers labor under the present distorted method of teaching literature, based upon a canon of what is good and bad, which may result in what Northrop Frye terms an aesthetic form of censorship.
-------. How Censorship Affects the School. [Oshkosh, Wis.]. Wisconsin Council of Teachers of English, 1963. 23p. (Special Bulletin no. 8) (Also reported in Wisconsin English Journal, October 1963, and summarized in Top of the News, May 1964, and in Education Digest, January 1964) B649
In a survey of censorship pressures in Wisconsin public schools (questionnaires returned by some 600 administrators and teachers) a fifth of all returns reported various kinds of censorship episodes. "Approximately one-third of all the returns contained evidence of one sort or another supporting the major conclusion that a substantial proportion of the teachers in Wisconsin feel the continuing presence of censorship pressures, and have experienced, or expect to experience, an overt expression of that pressure." The author recommends further cooperation among professional groups in resisting censorship, a written policy on book selection, and greater publicity for open schools and the right to read, with possible sanctions against those systems that do not permit freedom of book selection. Includes A Sample School Board Policy Statement and Books Objected to in Wisconsin, 1961-63.
-------. "Is the Areopagitica Out of Date?" Illinois Libraries, 47:458-69, May 1965. B650 §
In an address before the Southern Wisconsin Education Association, an English professor considers the various arguments against censorship made by John Milton in 1643 in light of present-day pressures for censorship, particularly in the public schools. The real issue is the student's right to read or right not to read. But "the right not to read does not mean the right to keep others from reading." Commenting on the two reactions of teachers to pressure-resistance or acquiescence-he states: "I think the American public wishes the schools to remain free of any pressure group, to be representative of the whole society, to enable all ideas to be expressed and to maintain intellectual freedom. Where teachers have publicly sought support, it has been forthcoming. Where they kept silent, they tended to lose their professional freedom, and their students lose the opportunity to get acquainted with the best literature of our time."
Burroughs, William. "Censorship." Transatlantic Review, 11:5-10, Winter 1962. B651
In his introduction the author questions "the right of government to decide what people will think, what thought material of word or image will be presented to their minds." If all censorship were removed, he doubts if there would be any serious effect. The main body of his article is an experiment with the "fold in method" of writing, making a composite text by placing a page of text folded down the middle on another page of text so that a composite text is then read across half one text and half the other. By way of example he takes two texts he read at the Writers' Conference and folds them into newspaper reports of the conference. The subject matter is largely that of censorship and the effect is unusual.
Burrows Charles W. "Postal Rates and Literature." Yale Review, 14:343-60, February 1906. B652
A criticism of the postal laws of 1874 and 1885 which give special rates to second-class matter. The privilege is being abused by inferior publications that are filled with advertising. Superior magazines are handicapped rather than aided by the working of this law.
[Burton, Henry]. Narration of the Life of Mr. Henry Burton . . . London, 1643. 51p. (Also in Howell, State Trials, vol. 3, pp. 714ff. and in Schroeder, Constitutional Free Speech, pp. 212-24) B653
Burton was an English Puritan minister who, along with William Prynne and John Bastwick, was persecuted for writing "libellous books against the hierarchy." On several occasions he was brought before the Star Chamber at the instigation of Bishop Laud for his criticism of popish practices of the prelates. His books and papers were seized, his testimony refused, and in 1637 he was committed to "prisoner of the fleet," where he remained until released by Parliament in 1640.
Bury, John B. "Freedom of Speech and the Censorship." R. P. A. Annual, 1919, London, Rationalist Press Association, 1919, pp. 16-19. B654
A certain limited censorship of opinion is necessary in wartime.
-------. A History of Freedom of Thought. New York, Holt, 1913. 256p. (Home University Library of Modern Knowledge, no. 69) B655
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A professor of history at Cambridge has written this concise but scholarly work, tracing the freedom of thought from the freedom of Greece, through the persecution of the medieval church and state, to the rise of religious toleration and rationalism.
Bush, W. S. "Federal Censorship is Wholly Bad." Moving Picture World, 28:1853-54, 10 June 1916. B656
Busher, Leonard. Religions Peace: Or a Plea for Liberty of Conscience. Long since presented to King James, and the High Court of Parliament then sitting, by Leonard Busher Citizen of London, and Printed in the Year 1614. Wherein is contained certain Reasons against Persecution for Religion; also a designe for a peaceable reconciling of those that differ in opinion . . . London, Printed for John Sweeting, 1646. 38p. (Reprinted in Edward B. Underhill, Tracts of Liberty of Conscience and Persecution, pp. 1-81) B657 §
"It be lawful for every person or persons, yea, Jews and papists, to write, dispute, confer and reason, print or publish any matter touching religion, either for or against whomsoever; always provided they allege no fathers for proof of any point of religion, but only the holy scriptures . . . By which means, both few errors and few books will be written and printed, seeing all false ministers, and most people, have little or nothing else, besides the fathers, to build their religion and doctrine upon."
Bushnell, Robert J. "Banned in Boston." North American Review, 229:518-25, May 1930. B658
District Attorney Bushnell describes his prosecution of Lady Cbatterley's Lover in Boston (Commonwealth v. James A. Delacey). While he conducted a vigorous case against the bookseller, Delacey, with ultimate success in the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Bushnell did so with distaste because of the entrapment methods employed by the Watch and Ward Society. His blasts against the Society during the trial and the supplemental brief he filed criticizing the Society's tactics led to widespread public criticism of the vice society and a movement to amend the Massachusetts censorship law.
Busser, Ralph C. "Free Press and Fair Trial." Temple Law Quarterly, 27:178-93, Fall 1953. B659
Notes on court decisions relating to the publication of information that might prejudice the impartiality of trials, 1935-53.
Butcher, Maryvonne. "Films and Freedom." Commonwealth, 69:65-70, 17 October, 1958. B660
The fine artistry in many films emanating from countries under authoritarian control (U.S.S.R., Czechoslovakia, Poland, and Spain) suggests to the author, an English film critic, that box office pressures in the democracies "are more harmful to artistic creation than are the restrictions of ideological controls."
Butler, D. M. The Law of Newspaper Libel. Lincoln, Nebr., Legal News Printing Co., 1899. 44p. B661
A practical handbook for newspaper editors giving specific examples of "libelous language" and "language not libelous."
Butler, William J. "The Right of Free Listening." Catholic World, 168:200-204, December 1948. B662
Criticism of the decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court favorable to Jehovah's Witnesses which allowed them to use loud-speakers and phonograph records on the streets.
Butterfield, Elizabeth. "Is a Public Library Its Brother's Keeper?" Wilson Library Bulletin, 17:835-36, June 1943. B663
The author rejects the principle that every book be considered in the light of its appropriateness for a 16-year-old. She examines the factor of "good taste," which is really a matter of community values. "The public library should be its brother's inspiration and help, but not its brother's keeper."
Button, Wilfred A. Principles of the Law of Libel and Slander. 2d ed. London, Sweet and Maxwell, 1946. 255p. B664
"Mr. Button's object has been to state as shortly and clearly as possible the main principles of the law of defamation as they have been established by authoritative decisions of our [English] Courts of Justice, and to support his précis of these principles by extracts from the reported judgments of eminent Judges . . . and by reference to decisions in leading cases."
Byington, Steven T. "On the Interference with the Environment: VI. The Question of Obscenity. Egoist, 1:15-16+, 1 January 1914; 2:34-35, 15 January 1914. B665
Since it is impossible for the law to satisfactorily define obscenity, "a man of ordinary prudence settles the question by regarding as probably legally obscene everything that opinions might differ on . . . to the considerable injury to the public." The writer attempts to reach a point of peaceful agreement between two divergent groups-those who find the nude body aesthetically acceptable and those who find it obscene.
Byrom, H. J. "Edmund Spenser's First Printer, Hugh Singleton." Library, 14 (4th ser.):121-56, September 1933. B666
Biography of a Puritan printer during the days of Elizabeth I. Part 2 of the article deals with Singleton's trial for secretly printing The Discourie of a Gaping Gulf, criticizing Queen Elizabeth's proposed marriage to a Catholic. The author, John Stubbe, and the printer, Singleton, were condemned to lose their right hands. Stubbe's hand was chopped off, but for some unaccountable reason the sentence on Singleton was never carried out.
The Bystander (London). "Special Censor Number." 61:217-60, 29 January 1919. (Excerpted in Literary Digest, 15 March 1919) B667
"For four and a half years [the censor] has been fair game for the lovers of this gentle pastime [leg-pulling], but never until now have we dared to indulge our inevitable propensities." Includes brief satirical articles, spoofs, jokes, and cartoons under the headings: The Censor's Blind Eye, That Queer "Censation," A Brain-Wave in the Censor's Office [analysis of the x's at the end of a love letter], As the Artist Might Have Drawn It-As the Censors Would Certainly Prefer It [e.g., "an issue of rum" v. "tea in the trenches"], and Censor Among the Poets.
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