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Carpenter, William. Political Letters and Pamphlets, Published for the Avowed Purpose of Trying with the Government the Question of Law--Whether All Publications Containing News or Intelligence, However Limited in Quantity or Irregularly Issued, Are Liable to the Imposition of the Stamp Duty of Fourpence, &c.; with a Full Report of the Editor's Trial and Conviction, in the Court of Exchequer, at Westminister. London, William Carpenter, 1830-31. (Thirty-three letters, each with a different title and separate paging, prefaced by an account of William Carpenter's Trial, 14 May 1831) C102
Carpenter, in protest against the Stamp Act, issued this series of letters. He claimed it was not a newspaper under the definition of the Stamp Act because (1) it was not regularly issued, (2) it did not bear a single title, and (3) there was no numerical designation of the parts. The Crown argued that if it contained news it was a newspaper. The jury found Carpenter guilty and he was required to pay £ 120 and back taxes.
Carr, Frank. "The English Law of Defamation." Law Quarterly Review, 18:255-73, July 1902; 18:388-99, October 1902. C103
An historical and interpretive work based on the author's doctoral dissertation at Cambridge University. Special references are made to the distinction between libel and slander.
[Carr, Sir John, plaintiff]. Liberty of the Press, Sir John Carr against Hood and Sharpe, Report of the above Case Tried at Guild Hall before Lord Ellenborough, the 25th of July, 1808, to which Are Added Several Letters on the Subject written by Earl Mountmorris, Sir Richard Phillips, and the Author of "My Pocket Book." London, Wilson, 1808. 39p. C104
Edward Dubois had written a satire on Sir John's "Tour in Ireland," entitled "The Stranger in Ireland in 1805, by a Knight Errant," for which the publishers were prosecuted for libel. They were found not guilty.
Carrigan, Mike. "North Dakota's Fight for Open Court Records. Quill, 49(5):15-16, 19, May 1961. C105
The article relates to a North Dakota Supreme Court ruling on the 1957 public records act that newsmen had no right to inspect records of the county courts.
[Carrington, Charles]. Forbidden Books: Notes and Gossip in Tabooed Literature. By an Old Bibliophile. Paris, For the Author and His Friends, 1902. 227p. (375 copies printed) C106
The publisher and probably the author of this work was the notorious English pornographer who conducted a flourishing publishing business in erotica and pornography in Paris, beginning about 1893. His sales were largely to English buyers. For a time English Customs prohibited "any books published by Carrington." His activities were the source of considerable annoyance to authorities both in France and England and his name figured prominently in the 1907 Parliamentary hearings on lotteries and indecent advertisements. The author gives a synopsis of three books: John Cleland's Fanny Hill, Anatole France's Thaïs, and the anonymous My Secret Life.
Carrington, Walter, "Laws to Suppress Anarchy and Sedition." Virginia Law Register, 5 (n.s.):606-9, December 1919. C107
The author favors a resolution adopted by the Missouri Bar Association urging Congress and state legislatures to pass legislation to suppress anarchy and sedition.
Carroll, Paul. "Big Table: The Way It Was." Choice, 2:156-58, 1962. C108
A former editor of the Chicago Review writes of the suppression of the Winter 1959 issue of that little magazine by the University of Chicago and the subsequent launching of Big Table, later suppressed by the Post Office.
Carroll, Thomas F. "Freedom of Speech and of the Press During the Civil War." Virginia Law Review, 9:516-51, April 1923. C109
Includes sections on control of reporters, telegraphic censorship, exclusion from the mails, arrest of editors, suppression of papers, and use of martial law.
-------. "Freedom of Speech and of the Press in War Time: The Espionage Act." Michigan Law Review, 17:621-65, June 1919. C110
A study of the Espionage Act of 1917 and its interpretations by the courts: (1) the freedom of the press is limited by the protective right of the community; (2) the right of circulation is collateral with the right of publication; (3) the censorship provision of the Act was rejected by Congress out of respect for the traditional opposition of the press and the people to any form of censorship; (4) the doctrine of administrative discretion has been strengthened; (5) the future of the Espionage Act to suppress bolshevism is in doubt.
-------. "Freedom of Speech and the Press in the Federalist Period: The Sedition Act." Michigan Law Review, 18:615-51, May 1920. C111
While no authority over the press was given to Congress by the Constitution, Congress might exercise needful control by virtue of the necessary and proper clause. The First Amendment does not provide a positive denial to Congress of any power over the press. Freedom of the press seems to imply freedom to publish such sentiments as do not interfere with the government exercise of its constitutional functions. The Sedition Act as it was enforced was little, if any, less severe than the common law of libels. It was the last act of its kind passed by the Congress.
Carson, Doris M. "The Price of Liberty; a Statement Prepared by the Intellectual Freedom Committee, Kansas Library Association." Wilson Library Bulletin, 36:392-93, January 1962. C112
Advice to librarians on how to meet censorship pressures and maintain intellectual freedom.
Carter, Boake. "Foreword." In his I Talk as I Like, New York, Dodge, 1937, pp. xi-xiii. (Excerpted in Summers, Radio Censorship, pp. 132-34) C113
The entire book deals with "the headaches with which I have battled in the last eight years, promoted solely from intolerance of Mr. Average Man" who, when he did not approve of the radio commentator's views, showered commercial sponsors with "the intolerance of threats to destroy their business." He calls on radio listeners, in the interest of freedom of reporting, to refrain from such actions and on advertisers and radio stations to disregard such demands for censorship. The book is dedicated to Philco Radio and Television Corp., which withstood such pressures. An article, What's Happened to Boake Carter? appeared in Radio Guide, 29 April 1939, and was reprinted in Summers, Radio Censorship, pp. 255-58.
Carter, John S. "Injunction of Newspaper's Publication as Nuisance." Cornell Law Quarterly, 17:126-31, December 1931. C114
A discussion of the case of Near v. Minnesota, in which the U.S. Supreme Court held unconstitutional the so-called Minnesota "gag law" that declared that a newspaper regularly engaged in publication of malicious and scandalous material could be enjoined as a nuisance.
Carter, Robert L. "Two Thousand Years of Censorship." Library Journal, 79:1003-5, 14 June 1954. C115
Report on an exhibit of banned books, 200 B.C. to A.D. 1953, at the Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore.
Carter, Roy E., Jr. "Newspaper 'Gatekeepers' and the Sources of News." Public Opinion Quarterly, 22:133-44, Summer 1958. C116
Consideration of research possibilities in the relationship between the newspaper "gatekeepers" (the desk editors who decide what is to be published) and the news sources.
-------. "Radio Editorializing Aboard the New Mayflower." Journalism Quarterly, 28:49-53, Fall 1951. C117
Cartwright, Frances D., ed. The Life and Correspondence of Major Cartwright. Edited by His Niece. London, Henry Colburn, 1826. 2 vols. C118
Major John Cartwright, who devoted a lifetime to liberal reforms, played an important part in the campaign against the British tax on newspapers. He supported the defendants in many of the libel trials of the period and refers to them in his letters--Thelwall, Wooler, Hardy, Muir, Holt, and Tooke. Daniel Holt had been convicted in 1793 for publishing An Address to Tradesmen . . ., written in 1782 by Cartwright. The biography contains a lengthy account of the prosecution of John Horne Tooke and Cartwright's testimony in his behalf.
Cartwright, John. English Constitution Produced and Illustrated. London, Printed by Richard Taylor and sold by T. Cleary, 1823. 446p. (Excerpts from sections on freedom of discussion are included in Schroeder, Methods of Constitutional Construction, pp. 85-106) C119
Major Cartwright, although a monarchist and opposed to the republican propaganda of Thomas Paine, was a staunch believer in freedom of opinion and was one of the founders of the Friends to the Liberty of the Press and the Society for Constitutional Information. His book, favorably reviewed by Thomas Jefferson, contains many references to freedom of speech and of the press.
Cary, Joyce. "Censorship Plot." Spectator, 194:275-76, 11 March 1955; discussion, 194:320, 18 March 1955; 194:390, 1 April 1955. C120
An attack on the proposed British Censorship Bill aimed at the horror comics. "The horror comics, in themselves are thoroughly bad; but censorship is worse." Cary sees the bill as an opening wedge for censorship on a wider front. J. C. C. Armitage, in a letter to the editor in the 1 April issue, believes Mr. Cary fails to distinguish between horror comics for children and erotic literature for adults. It is only the former that are to be banned and rightly so.
Cary, William J. "Espionage Bill: Shall the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights Be Deleted by a Censor?" Congressional Record, 55:1949-52, 5 May 1917. C121
The Case against the Saturday Review of Literature . . . Chicago, Poetry, 1949. 71p. C122
While not strictly an issue on the freedom of the press, the spirited controversy over the awarding of the 1948 Bollinger Prize in Poetry to Ezra Pound, under indictment for treason, raised a number of related points, notably whether a man's literary work can be legitimately judged apart from his public life, and what should be the relationship of art and the state. Opposition to the award, made by the Fellows in American Letters of the Library of Congress, centered in the pages of the Saturday Review of Literature (two articles by poet Robert Hillyer and several editorials); the defense of the award (or opposition to the Saturday Review's attack) was summed up in this pamphlet with statements by the Committee of the Fellows, including Allen Tate, Malcolm Cowley, Archibald MacLeish, and others. Some of these articles appeared previously in New Republic, Hudson Review, and Poetry.
"The Case Against Trial by Newspaper: Analysis and Proposal." Northwestern University Law Review, 57:217-54, May-June 1962. C123
An examination and evaluation of methods employed in the past in "an effort to reach some workable solution to the problem of how to assure a fair trial by an impartial jury to every criminal defendant, while not unconstitutionally limiting freedom of the press." Includes a model statute as an attempt to eliminate many of the abuses of unrestrained crime reporting.
"The Case for Censorship." Living Age, 346:172-73, April 1934. C124
An editorial observing that "the ideal of personal liberty has waned with prosperity," and quoting author Jean Schlumberger as questioning whether the right of the artist to express his ideas without restraint "is as essential to civilization as we have come to believe."
"A Case for News Suppression." Columbia Journalism Review, 2(3):11-12, Fall 1963. C125
An anonymous southern businessman applauds local management of the news in the interest of achieving equitable race relations and civil order. Editorial comment follows.
"The Case of Canon 35--As Debated on WSB Radio, Atlanta." Quill, 50(12):12-15, 24, December 1962. C126
The program, Court of Public Inquiry, discussed the American Bar Association stand against photography, broadcasting, or television coverage of court proceedings. The text of the broadcast is given.
"Case of Hagar Revelly." Green Bag, 26:115-19, March 1914. C127
Hagar Revelly was found obscene by a New York court but Judge Hand questioned the Cockburn rule on obscenity, a product of Victorian England, as not reflecting "the understanding and morality of the present time."
"The Case of John Hadlow." New Statesman and Nation, 38:603-4, 26 November 1949; discussion, 38:635, 647, 3 December 1949. C128
The case, subject of a discussion in Parliament, involves the right of an editor to protect the confidence and anonymity of his writers, a right which the author defends.
"The Case of The Well of Loneliness." New Adelphi, 2:199-209, March-May 1929. C129 §
The editor of the New Adelphi discusses the case of Radclyffe Hall's book which was condemned to be burnt as "obscene" by a Bow Street magistrate. The case should never have been brought to court which is not qualified to pass judgment. "All that was needed was common sense and courage in the Home Secretary." A footnote states that the case could not be reported in the last issue of New Adelphi without contempt of court because an appeal, since denied, was pending.
[Casey, Paul C.]. "The Casey Judgment." Tamarack Review, 21:58-70, Autumn 1961. C130
The text of the decision against Lady Chatterley's Lover given by Mr. Justice Casey in the Province of Quebec.
Casey, Ralph D. "Professional Freedom and Responsibility in the Press." In Wilbur Schramm, Communications in Modern Society, Urbana, Ill., University of Illinois Press, 1948, pp. 205-18. C131 §
Cashman, Gerald, and Marlowe Frake. "Canon 35 as Voiced by the Illinois Judiciary." Journal of Broadcasting, 2:295-310, Fall 1958. C132 §
A questionnaire survey of 66 Illinois judges indicated "almost unanimous regard of photo-radio-TV coverage as psychologically and physically distracting in the courtroom."
Casner, Margaret S. The Prosecutions of Newspapers under the Espionage Acts of 1917 and 1918. Urbana, Ill., University of Illinois, 1929. 42p. (Unpublished Master's thesis) C133
Castagna, Edwin. "The Climate of Intellectual Freedom--Why Is It Always So Bad in California." ALA Bulletin, 59:27-33, January 1965. C134 §
The author considers the phenomenon of a state that once offered hospitality to the controversial ideas of Jack London, Lincoln Steffens, Upton Sinclair, Cary McWilliams, Hiram Johnson, John Steinbeck and Dr. Townsend, but since the days of Senator McCarthy has become a national center for censorship and suppression. Despite the "stinking smogs of anti-intellectualism" many California librarians have stood up against attacks on intellectual freedom, setting courageous examples to librarians across the nation.
-------. "Courage and Cowardice: The Influence of Pressure Groups on Library Collections." Library Journal, 88:501-6, 1 February 1963. C135
The director of Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, describes the characteristic approaches and behaviors of censors of library books, gives examples of censorship attempts, and relates some of the accomplishments of librarians in the struggle for intellectual freedom.
Castberg, Frede. Freedom of Speech in the West; a Comparative Study of Public Law in France, the United States, and Germany. London, Allen & Unwin, 1960. 475p. C136 §
Part 2 considers constitutional provisions on freedom of expression in the United States--an historical survey, laws, Supreme Court decisions, and administrative ruling. Similar sections deal with Germany and France. A final section attempts to compare the ideological and practical expression of free speech in the three countries. Compiled largely from secondary sources. The author is former Rector, University of Oslo.
Castiglione, Emily P. Recent Trends in the Judicial Handling of Obscenity in Literature. Columbia, Mo., University of Missouri, 1948. 87p. (Unpublished Master's thesis) C137
Largely a discussion of court decisions on modern fiction in New York and Boston during the 1930's and 1940's. Consideration is given to the changed scene in Boston with the decisions on Strange Fruit and Forever Amber.
Cathcart, Arthur M. "Constitutional Freedom of Speech and of the Press." American Bar Association Journal, 21: 595-600, September 1935. (Reprinted in Johnsen, Freedom of Speech, pp. 86-96) C138
"Guarantees of free speech and free press control government action only. Prohibition of these rights clearly assumes a pre-existing freedom which is far less extensive than is generally supposed. Its sources are the English Common Law and the great principle of popular liberty for which the American Revolution was professedly fought." Address before the Commonwealth Club of California, 29 March 1935, by a professor of law at Stanford University.
[Catholic Church in the United States. Bishops]. Censorship; Statement of the Bishops of the United States. Washington, D.C., National Catholic Welfare Conference, 1957. 3p. (Reprinted in Gardiner, Catholic Viewpoint on Censorship, pp. 185-92) C139
"Through the National Legion of Decency and the National Office for Decent Literature, we Catholics give public expression to our opinion on this subject. Through these agencies we voice our concern over conditions which, tolerated, merit expression of public indignation. But we assert that our activities as carried out by these organizations cannot justly be termed an attempt to exercise censorship." The statement was signed in the name of the Bishops of the United States by members of the Administrative Board, National Catholic Welfare Conference. Comments on the statement appear in Commonweal, 6 December 1957.
[-------]. "Films: Freedom and Responsibility: Statement." Catholic Mind, 59:563-66, December 1961. C140
A statement on film censorship by the Catholic Bishops of the United States who had established the Legion of Decency in 1933 and the National Office for Decent Literature in 1938.
[Catholic Church in the United States. Episcopal Committee for Motion Pictures, Radio and Television]. Advisory-Film Classification, a Contemporary Obligation of Society. Huntington, Ind., Our Sunday Visitor, n.d. 23p. (Bound with John E. Fitzgerald, Film Classification, the Bishops Speak Again) C141
The statement was issued by the Committee on 7 December 1962.
[Catholic Church in the United States. Newark Archdiocese. Office of Communications and Entertainment]. Organization and Procedures. Decent Literature and Decent Motion Pictures, Archdiocese of Newark. Newark, n.d. 15p. mimeo. C142
Catlin, George E. G. "Freedom of Speech and Television." Contemporary Review, 184:337-43, December 1953. C143
A discussion of freedom of speech in relation to the monopoly of the British Broadcasting Corp. "The question is: who settles what is moral service and what is vice? Should we choose to accept the democratic philosophy, then I submit that it follows that the public must have a right to experiment in what is right, even if wrong; to be crude and clumsy; to learn by its errors; to grow."
-------. "This Giant Air Monopoly." Fortnightly Review, 135 (n.s.):577-85, May 1934. C144
The English people who have prided themselves on freedom of the press have allowed a censor, appointed by a government monopoly, to determine news and opinion on radio. The author calls for a challenge to the B.B.C. system and its standardization of ideas.
Catt, Carrie Chapman. "Open Letter to D.A.R." Woman Citizen, 12 (n.s.):10-12, 41-42, July 1927. C145
The author criticizes the Daughters of the American Revolution for the use of libel as a campaign method in the organization's pamphlets which charge innocent women with Communist sympathies and associations. In particular, Mrs. Catt refers to vilification of members of the Women's League for Peace and Freedom, of which Jane Addams is president.
Causton, Bernard, and G. Gordon Young. Keeping It Dark, or the Censor's Handbook. London, Mandrake Press, 1930. 83p. Foreword by Rebecca West. C146
Deals with literary, dramatic, and film censorship in Great Britain.
Cavanagh, John R. "The Comics War." Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, 40:28-35, May-June 1949. C147
The author concludes that no one has conclusively demonstrated that comics are harmful and that no normal child under 12 is likely to be harmed by them. Certain types of comics may be harmful to adolescents. He argues that campaigns to eliminate comics are useless and serve only to release the aggressive feeling of the crusaders; that parents are the best judges of what their children should read.
Caygill, Harry W. "Press Censorship in Wartime." Artillery Journal, 78:262-68, 358-63, 1935; Infantry Journal, 42:344-50, July-August 1935; 42:441-46, September-October 1935. C148
Based on an unpublished Master's thesis, Columbia University, 1932, entitled Press Censorship in the American Expeditionary Forces.
Cecil, Lord Robert. Why Mail Censorship Is Vital to Britain; an Interview with the Rt. Hon. Lord Robert Cecil as Published with a Preface by Arthur S. Draper of the New York Tribune. Together with a Brief Memorandum on the American Note Dealing with the Censorship of Mails, by the Rt. Hon. Sir Maurice De Bunsen . . . London, Truscott, 1916. 10p. C149
Deals with British military censorship in World War I.
Celler, Emanuel. "The Book and Censor." ALA Bulletin, 47:479-80, November 1953. C150 §
Extension of remarks made by the New York Congressman, reprinted from the Congressional Record, 14 April 1953. Representative Celler dissented from the majority report of the House Select Committee on Current Pornographic Materials, 82d Congress.
-------. "A Study of the Concentration of Ownership and the Decline of Competition in News Media." Brooklyn Barrister, 14: 82-88, January 1963. C151
Abstracts from an address by Congressman Celler before the Overseas Press Club.
Cellier, Elizabeth. Malice Defeated: Or a Brief Relation of the Accusation and Deliverance of Elizabeth Cellier, Wherein her Proceedings both before and during her Confinement, are Particularly Related, and the Mystery of the Meal-Tub fully discovered. Together with an Abstract of her Arraignment and Tryal, Written by her self, for the satisfaction of all Lovers of undisguized Truth. London, Printed for Elizabeth Cellier, 1680. 44p. C152
A famous London midwife was accused of involvement in a plot to kidnap the king, and incriminating documents were found in a meal tub in the Cellier kitchen. She was found not guilty, whereupon she wrote an exposé of her trial called Malice Defeated . . . This work offended authorities and brought about her trial and conviction for scandalous libel. She was fined, pilloried, and her books burned at the pillory.
-------. The Tryal and Sentence of Elizabeth Cellier; for Writing, Printing, and Publishing, a Scandalous Libel Called Malice Defeated, &c. at the Sessions in the Old Bailey, Held Saturday the 11th and Monday the 13th of Sept. 1680. Whereunto Is Added Several Depositions, Made before the Right Honorable, the Lord Mayor. London, T. Collins, 1680. 39p. (Reprinted in Howell, State Trials, vol. 7, pp. 1183 ff.) C153
"Celluloid Censorship." Time, 27(22):40-42, 1 June 1936. C154
British censorship of the March of Time movie.
"The Censor and the Screen." State Government, 7:183-86, September 1934. C155
The work of State boards of review is considered in the light of the recent movement for motion picture censorship.
"The Censor as Britain's Deadly Peril." Literary Digest, 50:1238-40, 22 May 1915. C156
A book, Britain's Deadly Peril by William Le Queux, which criticized England's war effort and complained of its policies on censorship, was itself the victim of the censor.
"Censor over Ads." Business Week, 667:48-51, 24 January 1942. C157
A discussion of Army and Navy censorship of advertising in World War II, operating under the broad policy of the Interdepartmental Committee on War Information.
"Censored Faun." Current Opinion, 60:176, March 1916. C158
A reproduction of the censored picture.
"Censored: From Here to Eternity; Photographs." Look, 17:41-43, 25 August 1953. C159
Suppression of the "on the beach scene" from the movie, From Here to Eternity.
Censored Mother Goose Rhymes. New York, Mother Goose, 1926. 32p. C160
A collection of Mother Goose rhymes with certain key words provocatively blacked out. "Dedicated to the Censors who have taught us how to read naughty meanings into harmless words."
"Censored Songs: Why You Hear New Words with the Old Tunes." U.S. News, 43:102-3, 9 August 1957. C161
"Censoring Art." Bazaar (London), 121:9, 13 July 1929. C162
The anonymous writer approves the seizure by the London police of D. H. Lawrence's paintings and the seizure by U.S. Customs of a book of drawings by Epstein.
"Censoring Poverty Pictures." Public, 11:171-72, February 1908. C163
Brief editorial criticism of Chicago police for confiscating lantern slides showing wide contrasts of poverty and wealth in the United States.
"Censoring the Movies." Public, 17:579-90, 19 June 1914. C164
While approving censorship of lewdness and violence in films, there is a danger that censorship might also be employed for political purposes.
"Censors and the Library." Saturday Review of Literature, 38(27):10-13, 36, 2 July 1955. C165
Lois Purdin reports on Brooksville, Fla., "where a lady with a foreign-sounding name was accused of attempting to stock the library there with 'filthy Communist propaganda'"; Robert S. Ricksecker reports on Galion, Ohio, "where the father of a young high-school girl objected to the fact that his daughter found Richard Wright's 'filthy' novel 'Native Son' on the shelves of her school library"; Tomme C. Call reports from San Antonio, Texas, where a housewife had compiled a REaD READING list, used as a basis for an attack on the school and public libraries; John D. Paulus reports on Mt. Lebanon, Pa., where the small community was split into several contending groups over library censorship; Lawrence J. Kipp reports on Boston, where an attempt to censor books in the Public Library was rejected by the board of trustees.
"Censors and Their Enemies." Literary Digest, 93(10):29, 4 June 1927. C166
Because of various forms of literary censorship becoming widespread in this country writers "begin to view with alarm the encroachments of constituted authority on the free expression of their literary divinings." The New York Herald Tribune reports the meeting of "twoscore authors, poets, and writers" to organize a "Committee for the Suppression of Irresponsible Censorship to combat the insistent activities of the descendents of Anthony Comstock." The organization was prompted by the passage of the theater "padlock" bill in New York and police action against many modern novels.
"The Censors Raise a Howl." Life, 25:57-8+, 25 October 1948. C167
"All over the world moviemakers find themselves in sudden trouble with church, state and plain citizen." The article is illustrated with scenes from current movies banned in one country or another for political, racial, or religious reasons.
"Censors' Stag Party." Economist, 187:690, 24 May 1958. C168
A brief satire on the decision of the town councillors of Brighton to exclude women from their Watch Committee because of the embarrassment of seeing films that might have to be banned.
"Censorship." Literary Review, 4:385, 22 December 1923. C169
If censorship is to be performed it should be by the courts, not by an arbitrary censor who is not competent to judge.
Censorship. London, The Congress for Cultural Freedom, 1964-1966. Quarterly. Editor: M. Mindlin; advisory editors: Daniel Bell (U.S.A.), Armand Gaspard (Switzerland), Anthony Hartley and Richard Hoggart (Great Britain), and Ignazio Silone (Italy). C170
Contents: Issue 1, Autumn 1964, opens with an essay, The Guardians and the New Populism by Richard Hoggart, and carries reports on censorship in Australia, France, East Germany, West Germany, Ireland, Italy, Poland, the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, South Africa, and the United States (Alan Reitman). Issue 2, Spring 1965, deals largely with film censorship in various countries including England and United States. Issue 3, Summer 1965, includes articles on the Mihajlov affair, censorship in Indonesia, Rhodesia, France, as well as articles by Maurice Girodias (Confessions of a Booklegger's Son), Donald Thomas, and B. S. Johnson. Issue 4, Autumn 1965, features stage censorship in England and reports briefly on censorship in Portugal, Ghana, Malaysia, and Australia. Articles dealing with United States and Great Britain are listed separately in this bibliography under the name of the author.
"Censorship." Nation, 116:508, 2 May 1923. C171
A discussion of the current censorship epidemic which is not confined to attacks on impure literature but is also aimed at ideas. "Among the most absurd of these attacks are the attempts to revise history, according to some nationalistic or economic bias, to supplant one alleged prejudice with another."
"Censorship." Survey, 46:231-32, 21 May 1921. C172
On the occasion of the passage of a New York movie censorship bill, the author discusses movie censorship in other states.
"Censorship." Transactions of the California Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, 1921, pp. 181-221. C173
Concerns motion picture censorship.
Censorship: A Question of Judgment. 16 mm. color film, 5 1/2 minutes. Chicago, International Film Bureau, 1964. C174
"Censorship Abroad." Nation, 99:513-14, 20 October 1914. C175
Censorship of war news prevents American readers from learning the truth about the enemy.
"The Censorship Again." Truth Seeker, 43:100-101, 12 February 1916. C176
Suppression of The Masses from the New York elevated and subway newsstands because of objections to a poem, "The Ballad of Joseph," a satire on the Virgin Birth.
"The Censorship and Its Effects." Quarterly Review, 225:148-63, January 1916. C177
Commentary on wartime censorship in Great Britain. While criticizing the unnecessary suppression of news, the author believes that some failures of reporting result from it being "nobody's business to publish them." He rejects the idea that England should indulge in spreading false news to delude the enemy. "Our press will never lend itself readily to Government control; but if it cannot be adapted to cripple the enemy's strength, let us see that neither by sins of omission or commission it cripples our own."
"Censorship and Obscenity: a Panel Discussion." Dickinson Law Review, 66:421-44, Summer 1962. C178
An edited transcript of a panel discussion cosponsored by the Greater Philadelphia Branch of the American Civil Liberties Union and the Public Affairs Committee of the Philadelphia Ethical Society. Panelists are Arlen Specter, assistant district attorney of Philadelphia; William B. Ball, general counsel, Pennsylvania Catholic Welfare Committee; Dr. Philip Q. Roche, psychiatrist; and Julian E. Goldberg, general counsel ACLU of Greater Philadelphia. "The panelists were asked to address their opening remarks to three questions: What is the duty of government with respect to the preservation of accepted standards of sexual morality? To what extent is control over printed words and pictures necessary in order to fulfill this duty? What form should such control take, and where does the responsibility rest for setting the standards and for deciding what offends standards?"
"Censorship and Open Diplomacy Discussion." Proceedings, Academy of Political Science in the City of New York, 7:369-74, July 1917. C179
Participants: Paul U. Kellogg, Philip Marshall Brown, Dixon Merritt, Edward T. Devine, and Maurice Léon. Presented at the National Conference on Foreign Relations of the United States.
"Censorship and Prohibition." Christian Century, 40:901-3, 19 January 1923. C180
The author considers common problems in control of alcoholic beverages and corrupting books and plays. In the interest of the young, if we are to prevent the fountains of literature and drama to be poisoned, a national censorship is the only solution.
"Censorship and Suppression." Nation, 104:424-25, 2 April 1917. C181
Objection to the barring of certain foreign journals during World War I.
"Censorship and the Espionage Act." New Republic, 11:316, 21 July 1917. C182
The Act gives the Post Office too much censorship authority.
"Censorship and the Freedom to Read." Publishers' Weekly, 187:85-87, 18 January 1965. C183
Review of court decisions and censorship activities during 1964. The major court battles of the year were won by supporters of the freedom to read, though local courts and citizen vigilantes continued to harry certain books for reasons of obscenity or politics. The most important censorship case of the year was the Jacobellis case, involving the movie, The Lovers.
"Censorship and the Freedom to Read; 1963 in Review." Publishers' Weekly, 185:88-89, 20 January 1964. C184
"Proponents of the freedom to read won a few rounds and lost a few in 1963." A review of court decisions and other actions affecting censorship and the various books which came under attack in 1963.
"Censorship and the Peace Conference." New Republic, 17:61-63, 16 November 1918. C185
Criticism of the Wilson government for extending wartime censorship to Peace Conference negotiations. "Crusaders for freedom are themselves" applying "the very methods and principles against which they fight."
Censorship and Trade. London, Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1916. 24p. C186
Refutation of a suspicion in the United States that Great Britain, during World War I, used information obtained from censorship of mails to gain advantage over neutral trade.
"Censorship as Finally Enacted." Survey, 38:245-46, 9 June 1917. C187
Relates to the defeat in the U.S. House of Representatives of a more stringent wartime censorship clause in the espionage bill.
"Censorship as Self-Control." New Republic, 50:5-7, 23 February 1927. C188
The article approves of the police closing three undesirable plays. The blatant sex plays in the American theater during the present season have offended the public to such an extent that some kind of administrative censorship is unavoidable. The article describes the self-censorship jury set up by the Committee of Nine to be administered by the Actors Equity Association.
"Censorship Beaten in New York Court." Publishers Weekly, 102:801-4, 16 September 1922. C189
New York Magistrate George W. Simpson freed three books--Schnitzler's Casanova's Homecoming, Lawrence's Women in Love, and the anonymous A Young Girl's Diary--of obscenity charges brought by the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice against publisher Thomas Seltzer. Text of the decision and comments by Mr. Seltzer.
"Censorship by Judicial Construction." New Republic, 26:123-25, 30 March 1921. C190
A criticism of the censorship action by the Postmaster General, with special reference to the case of the Milwaukee Leader.
"The Censorship Column." Library Journal, 88:2556-58, July 1963. C191
A résumé of recent censorship news including favorable action on Tropic of Cancer (Wisconsin Supreme Court), dismissal of a suit which attempted to ban four books from a Virginia county library, and the court decision (U.S. District Court in Philadelphia) against the magazine Eros.
"Censorship Fantasia." Time, 39:64, 8 June 1942. (Reprinted in Summers, Wartime Censorship, pp. 190-92) C192 §
A criticism of Army censorship of Washington correspondents reporting on a tour of war plants.
"Censorship Fight over Movie Morals." Life, 5:50-55, 18 July 1938. C193
A group of pictures illustrating scenes cut from American movies by the Hays Office, by state and municipal censorship boards, and by foreign censors. Special attention is given to Catholic boycott action against the Spanish Civil War film, Blockade.
"Censorship for the Mass Audience: A Protection or a Threat?" In Platform. Published by Newsweek Club and Educational Bureau, September 1953, pp. 1-23. (Reprinted in Daniels, The Censorship of Books, pp. 18-22) C194 §
"Censorship from the Inside." Bookman, 57:374-75, May 1923. C195
A brief editorial, reprinted from the New York World, dealing with censoring by the city of Minneapolis of the list of magazines suitable for juvenile prisoners. Saturday Evening Post, Red Book, and Ladies Home Journal were removed by the City Council because each in some way offended one of the members.
"Censorship Ground Rules." Time, 39(4):56-58, 26 January 1942. C196
A discussion of the wartime censorship code and its reception by the American press.
"Censorship Grows Bold." Time, 39(14):51-53, 6 April 1942. C197
Deals with the British controversy over wartime censorship and government threats against the Mirror for its criticism of the war effort.
"Censorship in Boston." Commonweal, 12:656, 29 October 1930. C198
Reference to the suppression of Thomas Á. Kempis' Imitation of Christ in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1669.
[Censorship in Canada]. Mother Earth, 5:275-77, November 1910. C199 §
Editorial comment on the exclusion of radical literature and the deportation to Russia of Savva Federenko.
"Censorship in Washington." Democratic Digest, 3:28-35, November 1955. C200
Government cover-ups begin "with censorship of information, then hush-hush treatment of small mistakes and inefficiencies. From there, it is only a matter of time and degree for some grave blunder or failure to be hidden from sight in the ordinary course of business." A criticism of government censorship under the Eisenhower administration.
"Censorship--Informal Prior Restraint through Lists of 'Objectionable' Books and Threats to Recommend Prosecution." Iowa Law Review, 49:161-69, Fall 1963. C201
Bantam Books, Inc. v. Sullivan, 372 U.S. 58 (1963), relating to action of the Rhode Island Commission to Encourage Morality in Youth.
"Censorship Issues: an Appraisal of Obscenity and Censorship." Information Service, National Council of Churches, 39:1-8, 24 December 1960. C202
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