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[-------]. "What Mrs. Dennett Wrote." New Republic, 58:329-32, 8 May 1929. D102
The editors reprint a major portion of the pamphlet, The Sex Side of Life, for which Mrs. Dennett was found guilty of sending obscene matter through the mails. They carefully omit the passages on which she was found guilty to avoid loss of their mailing privilege, but assure their readers that the omitted passages are "dignified, straightforward, and entirely in the tone of those we print."
-------. Who's Obscene? New York, Vanguard, 1930. 281p. D103
An account of the trial of Mrs. Dennett, April 1929, before a U.S. District Court in New York, for the distribution through the mails of the defendant's pamphlet, The Sex Side of Life. She was declared guilty, but on appeal to the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals the decision of the lower court was reversed. Mrs. Dennett also discusses other cases of Post Office suppression.
[Denny, Charles, et al.]. A Report of the Trials of Charles Denny and Patrick Byrne--and of Samuel Himson and George French, for Publishing an Alleged Libel upon Elisha Bloomer, a Hatter . . . With Introductory Remarks, by John Lomas . . . New York, 1834. 16p. D104
Dent, R. K. "Introduction to Discussion on Blacking Out of Sporting News in Libraries." Library, 6:127-29, 1894. D105
[Denton, William]. An Apology for the Liberty of the Press. [London, 1681]. 9p. D106
The author attributes padlocking of the press to the influence of the Catholic church. He objects to the practices of the Church in requiring an imprimatur, a practice which "stifles books in the womb" and is injurious to the truth. It is a trick of the priests to keep the laity ignorant, even of the Scriptures for which are substituted doctrinal works of the Fathers. Denton was an anti-Catholic physician who joined Blount and other Whigs in their campaign against the renewal of the Licensing Act. He takes Milton's ideas on the origin of licensing and, with slight rewording, presents them as his own. Sensabaugh, in That Grand Whig, Milton (pp. 62-65), shows by parallel text how Denton crudely but effectively adapted Milton's Areopagitica.
De Palma, Samuel. Freedom of the Press; an International Issue. Washington, D.C., U.S. State Department, 1949. 24p. (Publication 3687; reprinted from 14 November 1949 issue of Department of State Bulletin) D107
The UN debate on the Convention on International Transmission of the News and the Right of Correction, reported by the technical secretary to the United States delegation to the UN Conference on Freedom of Information.
De Pereda, Prudencio. "Red Straits." Nation, 172:492-93, 26 May 1951. D108
"A Report on the Subversive Activities of Certain Contributors to Radio Not Covered by 'Red Channels.'" A satire listing names, activities, and associates of such "subversives" as Beethoven, Mark Twain, Shelley, Jefferson, and Voltaire.
Depew, Chauncey M. The Liberty of the Press. Address before New York State Press Association at Madison Square Theater, New York, June 19, 1883. New York, 1883. 20p. D109
"The one man to whom the Press is more indebted than all others is that marvelous genius, who with rarest indifference to personal fame, buried his personality in devotion to his principles, and wrote under the name of Junius. . . . The most important effect of its liberty and growth upon the Press itself, has been to elevate journalism from a trade to one of the liberal professions."
De Selincourt, Oliver. Art and Morality. London, Methuen, 1935. 284p. D110
A philosophical discussion of the conflict and compatibility of art and morality, with indirect implication to the freedom and suppression of creative literature. "Human experience is a whole which cannot, without danger to truth, be divided up into parts or elements wholly unrelated to one another."
De Silver, Albert. "Freedom of Speech." Arbitrator, 3:1-6, January 1921. D111
An historical and legal defense of free speech.
Des Moines Public Library. Board of Trustees. "The Library's Bill of Rights." ALA Bulletin, 33:51, December 1939. D112
A statement of policy adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Des Moines Public Library, 21 November 1938, which served as the basis for a similar statement by the American Library Association.
Desmond, Charles S. "Censoring the Movies." Notre Dame Lawyer, 29:27-36, Fall 1953. D113
The author defends the constitutional and moral right of the government, in the interest of public order and decency, to censor films. It should "stop the evil at its source, and need not wait and punish after the harm has been done."
-------. "Legal Problems Involved in Censoring the Media of Mass Communications." Marquette Law Review, 40:38-56, Summer 1956. D114
"My thesis . . . is that there is nothing in American law, constitutional, statutory or conventional, to prevent precensorship for obscenity, and that such precensorship, applied reasonably and justly and without impingement on the public right to be informed and without destruction of real literary values, is not offensive to the historic American tradition of freedom of publication."
Desmond, Robert W. "Of a Free and Responsible Press." Journalism Quarterly, 24:188-92, June 1947. D115
An editorial criticism of the report of the Hutchins Commission on Freedom of the Press, by the president of the American Association of Schools and Departments of Journalism.
-------. The Press and World Affairs. New York, Appleton-Century, 1937. 421p. D116
In a general survey of the collection and distribution of news throughout the world, this American journalist discusses the obstacles of censorship which the foreign correspondent encounters in the years just before World War II. The final chapter, Autocrats of the Press, deals with influences and restrictions faced by the free press of democratic nations.
Desrochers, Edmond. "A Catholic Librarian Looks at Intellectual Freedom in the Canadian Setting." Canadian Library, 19:123-25, November 1962. D117
-------. "Catholic Viewpoint on Censorship." Catholic Library Association Bulletin, 15:147-49, 9 January 1959. D118
[Destruction of Charlotte Towle's Book by the Federal Security Administrator]. Social Service Review, 25:248-49, June 1951. D119
A manual for social workers, entitled Common Human Needs, prepared by Charlotte Towle of the University of Chicago faculty, was ordered destroyed by the Federal Security Administrator after the president of the American Medical Association charged that it was "viciously un-American" and that it advocated state socialism.
Detroit Public Library. Radio Control: A List of References on the Subject, Resolved, That All Radio Broadcasting in the United States Should Be Conducted in Stations Owned and Controlled by the Federal Government. Detroit, Civics Division, Detroit Public Library, 1933. 11p. mimeo. D120
Deutsch, Eberhard P. "Federal Equity Jurisdiction in cases Involving the Freedom of the Press." Virginia Law Review, 25:507-27, March 1939. D121
-------. "Freedom of the Press and of the Mails." Michigan Law Review, 36:703-51, March 1938. D122
An historical summary of postal powers in relation to censorship of the mails.
Deutsch, Monroe E. "Freedom of the Press." In his The Letter and the Spirit . . ., Berkeley, University of California Press, 1943, pp. 39-55. D123
Devane, Richard S. "The Committee on Printed Matter." Irish Ecclesiastical Record, 28:357-77, October 1926; 28:449-66, November 1926; 28:583-95, December 1926. (Reprinted in a separate publication, Evil Literature: Some Suggestions, with a foreword by the Rt. Hon. Sir E. Cecil, Dublin, Browne and Nolan, 1927) D124
The three articles by Father Devane deal with the work of the Irish government's Committee on Evil Literature. In the first article he discusses three basic problems: (1) combating the evils of imported British publications, (2) an inadequate obscenity law, and (3) the "stupid writing" and "loose thinking" in defending as "freedom of the press" what is really "license of the press." The article includes a list of publications rejected by Canadian Customs. The second article proposes legislation and the creation of a blacklist, and argues against the proposal of moral suasion as an effective weapon against indecent literature. In the third article the author sums up his own recommendations for legislation: (1) a new definition of "indecency," (2) establishment of a blacklist, (3) creation of a state censor in the Ministry of Justice, (4) ban of all birth control information, (5) registration of imported journals other than scientific, (6) licensing of news vendors, and (7) licensing of booksellers.
Devoe, Alan. "Any Sex Today?" American Mercury, 41:175-78, June 1937. D125
Deals with the racket of selling publications advertised as forbidden erotica, but which are, in reality, entirely innocuous.
DeVoto, Bernard. "The Decision in the Strange Fruit Case: The Obscenity Statute in Massachusetts." New England Quarterly, 19:147-83, June 1946. D126
A critique of the court decision, written by a strong opponent of Massachusetts censorship and a principal in the case. Faced with the threat of police censorship, Boston booksellers withdrew Strange Fruit from sale. The Civil Liberties Union thereupon decided to make a test case of the Massachusetts obscenity statute and arranged for a copy to be sold in Cambridge to DeVoto. The bookseller, Abraham Isenstadt, was convicted and the decision affirmed by the Supreme Judicial Court. The test was made with the thought that Strange Fruit was of such high literary quality and social significance that it could not be reasonably considered obscene. Judge Stone of the District Court, however, considered it "appealing to pornographic minds," and criticized the defendants for using the courts for a test case. There was widespread criticism of the decision, both in Boston and throughout the country. A group from the Bar Association of Boston denounced the criticism of the court as "unconstitutional." DeVoto calls this response of the lawyers "a state of mind which at best is craven and cringing and at worst must be regarded as dangerous to the liberties of the Commonwealth."
-------. "The Easy Chair: Boston Censorship." Harper's Magazine, 188:525-28, May 1944. D127
The recent banning of Strange Fruit prompts DeVoto to attack the cultural leadership of Boston in which Catholic and Protestant "bigots" are joined by a third group, "the well-born, the rich, the cultivated, the heirs of the old ruling class" who will not accept social responsibility or exercise leadership.
-------. "The Easy Chair: Four Letter Words." Harper's Magazine, 197:98-101, December 1948. D128
Deals with the breaking down of the taboo against use of many "four letter words" formerly considered obscene.
-------. "The Easy Chair: Liberal Decisions in Massachusetts." Harper's Magazine, 199:62-65, July 1949. D129
Discuss three recent liberal decisions on books in the Massachusetts courts: Justice Donahue finding Forever Amber not obscene and Justice Fairhust finding God's Little Acre and Serenade not obscene. He also praises the "landmark" decision of Judge Curtis Bok in Philadelphia in finding nine novels not obscene.
-------. "The Easy Chair: Sex and the Coed." Harper's Magazine, 195:156-59, August 1947. (Reprinted in Downs, The First Freedom, pp. 201-5) D130 §
DeVoto reveals the removal of his article, "Sex and the Coed," from the May 1926 issue of American Mercury. The April issue containing the famous "Hatrack" story was before the courts under an obscenity charge and Mencken and his lawyers did not wish to prejudice their case. DeVoto summarizes his hilarious article on sex education in a typical university of the mid-twenties.
-------. "The Easy Chair: Soldier Voting Bill." Harper's Magazine, 189:330-33, September 1944. D131
A satirical essay attacking the restrictions on distribution of political literature to members of the armed services and particularly the part played by Senator Taft in the enactment of the bill. The restrictions, DeVoto finds, are more asinine than sinister.
-------. "The Easy Chair: The Case of the Censorious Congressman." Harper's Magazine, 206:42-45, April 1953. (Reprinted in Downs, The First Freedom, pp. 205-9) D132 §
An attack on the Gathings Committee on Pornographic Materials of the U.S. House of Representatives. "Such ignorance and prejudice as the Committee shows are routine in obscenity crusades, but also there is something new." This is the belief of the Committee "that the freedom guaranteed by the First Amendment ought to be abridged and . . . that Congress has power to act."
-------. "The Easy Chair: The Forever Amber Case." Harper's Magazine, 194:408-11, May 1947. D133
The columnist reports a sudden improvement in the censorship situation in Massachusetts with the decision of Judge Frank J. Donahue of the Superior Court in Commonwealth v. "Forever Amber." Judge Donahue freed the book of obscenity charges.
-------. "The Easy Chair: The Strange Fruit Case." Harper's Magazine, 189:148-51, July 1944. D134
Following a brief account of the author's involvement in the test case of the Massachusetts obscenity law by the purchase of a copy of Strange Fruit, he launches into discussion of the right to purchase and possess erotic literature. "The right to own and read pornography appears to me unquestionable . . . The ordinary adult should be secure in his right to read in his own home any kind of book he may desire to read--and to buy it free of imputation and penalty." He agrees to one limitation--that the surreptitious sale of pornography to adolescents be forbidden.
-------. "The Easy Chair: The Strange Fruit Case." Harper's Magazine, 190:225-28, February 1945. D135
"As Lillian Smith's Strange Fruit has progressed through the courts of Massachusetts, it has become clear that the defense of literary freedom has got to be shifted to firmer and bolder grounds than those from which liberals have so far argued . . . Meanwhile I feel obliged as an American correspondent resident in Massachusetts to keep you informed about the local censorship . . . I must be careful, however, to say 'suppression,' not 'censorship,' for the official position is that Massachusetts has no censorship."
-------. "The Frustrated Censor." Harper's Magazine, 175:109-12, 7 June 1937. D136
"[Censorship] tries to improve society instead of policing it. It tries to infuse with morality an area that society considers non-moral. It fails to distinguish between fiction and reality. It mistakes a verbalism for a psychological and ethical principle. And it is perpetually out of touch with society as it is, and so finds itself stopped by social energies which it perpetually misunderstands." The only solution to the problem of censorship is to do away with it entirely.
-------. "Literary Censorship in Cambridge." Harvard Graduates' Magazine, 38:30-42, September 1930. D137
The case of James A. Delacey, proprietor of the Dunster House Book Store in Cambridge, arrested and convicted of selling Lady Chatterley's Lover to an agent provocateur of the Watch and Ward Society. DeVoto was one of the leaders in Delacey's defense.
De Wagstaffe, William. "The Creel Press Cabinet; an Insight into the Censorship." Forum, 58:447-60, October 1917. D138
A discussion of the Creel Committee, its policy and its work in censorship during World War I.
Dewees, Curtis. "On the Suppression of Homosexual Literature." Mattachine Review, 4(8):14-16, August 1958; 4(9):7-12, September 1958. D139
Dewey, John. "Conscription of Thought." New Republic, 12:128-30, 1 September 1917. D140
Concern with "the historically demonstrated inefficacy of the conscription of mind as a means of promoting social solidarity and the gratuitous stupidity of measures that defeat their own ends." Wartime censorship of unorthodox political ideas may ultimately harm the attacker more than the attacked.
-------. "Freedom of Thought and Work." New Republic, 22:316-17, 5 May 1920. D141
"Because liberty is essentially mental, a matter of thought, and because thought is free only as it can manifest itself in act, every struggle for liberty has to be reinacted on a different plane. The old struggle for liberty of speech, assemblage and publication was significant because it was part of a struggle for liberty of worship, and security of property . . . Freedom of speech and of the franchise is now significant because it is part of the struggle for freedom of mind in industry, freedom to participate in its planning and conduct."
-------. "New Paternalism; Molding of Public Opinion. New Republic, 17:216-17, 21 December 1918. D142
Public opinion is being molded by the press through a combination of paternalism and censorship. Dewey is concerned with the mental attitude brought on by submission to war censorship.
DeWolf, Richard C. "Copyright and Morals." Authors' League Bulletin, 4(6):3-4, September 1916. D143
"In the United States we have no cases reported in which copyright has been denied or opposed on the ground of the libellous, seditious or blasphemous character of the matter involved, but we have several cases in which immorality, in the narrower sense of the term, has been held a reason for refusing to protect the work which showed it."
Dialogue between a Country Farmer and a Juryman on the Subject of Libels. London, 1770. 30p. D144
Dialogue between a Methodist Preacher and a Reformer. Newcastle, Eng., John Marshall, 1819. 8p. D145 §
A Methodist minister is quoted as decrying the seditious libels in the "twopenny trash." The reformer responds: "Is there no Sixpenny Trash? . . . And if books become dangerous when they are cheap, how are we to defend our Cheap Religious Tract Societies? Now, if Cobbett, Wooler, Sherwin, and other popular writers of Political Tracts, promulgate false doctrines, the Press is open, refute them. If they publish misstatements, overwhelm them by the production of irresistible facts . . . Defeat them upon their own ground. But do not run in an affected fright to a Police Officer." Many of the Methodist clergy who had supported radical reform, he notes, now fear the action of the extremists.
Dialogue on the Approaching Trial of Mr. Carlile for publishing the Age of Reason . . . From Wooler's British Gazette, Sunday, April 18, 1819. London, Wooler, 1819. 16p. D146
An imaginary conversation, written in a satirical vein.
Dicey, Albert V. Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution. Introduction by E. C. S. Wade. 10th ed. London, St. Martin's, 1959. 535p. D147
Chapter 6, The Right to Freedom of Discussion, contains an analysis of the evolution of freedom of the press in England from the Star Chamber to the date of publication.
-------. Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England during the Nineteenth Century. London, Macmillan, 1914. 506p. D148
An attempt to draw a relationship between a century of English legislation and successive currents of opinion. References to freedom and restriction of opinion are made throughout. The lectures, delivered at Harvard Law School over a period of years, represent reflection and interpretation rather than a compilation of facts.
Dickerson, Oliver M. "British Control of American Newspapers on the Eve of the American Revolution." New England Quarterly, 24:453-68, December 1951. D149
Dickinson, Edwin D. "The Defamation of Foreign Governments." American Journal of International Law, 22:840-44, October 1928. D150
Deals with the case of Hearst newspapers publishing documents which were claimed to have been abstracted from the secret archives of Mexico. The incident occurred at a time when the United States and Mexico were involved in difficult negotiations.
Dickinson, Robert L. "The Birth Control Movement." Medical Journal and Recorder, 125(10):654, 18 May 1927. D151
Dickinson, Thomas H. "The Theory and Practice of the Censorship." Drama, 18:248-61, May 1915. D152
An impartial review of the development of stage censorship in the United States.
Dickinson, William B., Jr. Libel Suits and Press Freedom. Washington, D.C., Editorial Research Reports, 1963. (Editorial Research Reports, 2:885-902, 1963) D153 §
A review of the growing magnitude of libel awards including the Alabama case against the New York Times, the Butts action against the Saturday Evening Post, the case of Reynolds v. Pegler, and the John Henry Faulk case against Aware, Inc., followed by a summary of the basic elements of the law of libel and the relation to First Amendment freedoms.
-------. Peacetime Censorship. Washington, D.C., Editorial Research Reports, 1961. (Editorial Research Reports, 1:461-78, 1961) D154
Deals with current issues relating to government security v. free access to information, a review of experience with censorship in World Wars I and II, and modes of news control in foreign countries.
-------. Privileged Communications. Washington, D.C., Editorial Research Reports, 1959. (Editorial Research Reports, 2:895-910, 1959) D155 §
Deals with the protection of news sources in the courts, the position of the press in Congress, and recognized confidential communications (husband-wife, lawyer-client, physician-patient, confidences to priest or pastor). Includes a discussion of the Marie Torre case.
Dietrich, John H. The Conspiracy of Silence About Sex. Minneapolis, The First Unitarian Society, [1931?]. (The Humanist Pulpit Series, vol. 13, no. 8) D156
-------. The Vexing Problem of Censorship. Minneapolis, The First Unitarian Society, [1931?]. (The Humanist Pulpit Series, vol. 13, no. 3) D157
Digest of the Law Concerning Libels; Containing All the Resolutions in the Books on the Subject, and Many Manuscript Cases, the Whole Illustrated with Occasional Observations; by a Gentleman of the Inner Temple. London, Owen, 1765. D158
Digges, Isaac W. "Radio Broadcast and Libel." Printers' Ink, 169(6):73-77, 8 November 1934. D159
Some important decisions that can guide advertisers in matters of libel, pending a U.S. Supreme Court ruling.
Dill, Glenn. "Fairness Doctrine for the Press." North Dakota Law Review, 40:317-28, July 1964. D160
"The real answer to the problem of centralized communication is to maintain the minority viewpoint; the most practicable means being a governmental broadcasting system. It is in the area of spot news reporting which broadcasting has largely pre-empted from the press, that minority groups are likely to encounter the limited-access medium, the area where the government is then obligated to give aid. And it is because of the limited-access aspect that a 'fairness doctrine' is the least expeditious. . . . Many stations and newspapers, each with an individual viewpoint, will more adequately present minority views than few stations and newspapers each presenting many viewpoints."
Dillard, James H. "History and Free Speech." Public, 22:236-37, 8 March 1919. D161
General arguments for unlimited freedom of speech and press, with special mention of post-office censorship of abolition literature.
Dilliard, Irving. "Censorship and the Freedom to Read." Illinois Libraries, 47:449-55, May 1965. D162
It is the "basic mission of the public library to stand firm against those who set themselves up as censors or attempt in some other way to control the thinking of the community through what it reads." The author, who received the Intellectual Freedom Award of the Illinois Library Association in 1964, suggests titles of books on freedom that should be in every public library and brought to the attention of the public.
-------. "The Development of a Free Press in Germany, 1945-46: an Aspect of American Military Government." In Edmund J. James Lectures on Government, 5th. series. Urbana, Ill., University of Illinois Press, 1951, pp. 35-66. D163
-------. "How America's First Press Martyr Gave His Life for Freedom." Quill, 40 (10):8-9, 15-16, October 1952. D164
The editor of the editorial page of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch presents, in the form of a contemporary dispatch, the story of Elijah P. Lovejoy's fight for freedom of the press. The occasion is the dedication of a Sigma Delta Chi historical marker in Alton, Ill., to the memory of the martyred editor.
-------. "The Press and the Bill of Rights. Nieman Reports, 8(1):13-18, January 1954. (Excerpted in the Nation, 12 December 1953) D165
In the second annual Lovejoy Lecture at Colby College, 5 November 1953, the St. Louis editor criticizes the American press for maintaining a double standard, tending "to have one standard when it measures the performance of officials and public figures, and another standard when it comes to measuring its own performance . . . The press holds other institutions up to searching scrutiny but is unwilling to have the same scrutiny applied to itself." Most of the press of today is indifferent to infringements of civil rights and is not fighting for the principles and causes that the Bill of Rights embodies.
Dillon, John. The Censorship and the War. Remarkable Speech . . . London, National Council for Civil Liberties, 1917. 14p. From the Official Reports, vol. 90, no. 8) D166
A member of Parliament objects to the Government's policy of secrecy in the conduct of World War I.
Dillon, Merton L. Elijah P. Lovejoy, Abolitionist Editor. Urbana, Ill., University of Illinois Press, 1961. 190p. D167 §
A study of Eliiah Lovejoy's life and thought, set within the larger framework of the American abolitionist movement.
Dillon, William T. "Censorship in Education." Catholic Lawyer, 3:322-29, Autumn 1957. D168 §
Monsignor Dillon's thesis is that education is made effective largely through discipline, criticism, and censorship. While decrying legal censorship, he favors educational censorship which he generally defines as criticism.
Dilworth, Nelson. Responsibility for Selection of School Books. Washington, D.C., National Defense Committee, National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, 1957. 6p. (Also issued by Education Information, Inc., Amarillo, Tex.) D169 §
An address by California State Senator Dilworth before the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco. "Is it censorship if, in selecting books for our school children's desks and libraries, that our school board members insist on books that ' impress on the minds of the pupils the principles of morality'? If that be censorship let's have more of it. Is it censorship for board members to insist on the selection of books that teach patriotism? " The speaker notes that removal of a book once selected is a difficult one. The emphasis should be on proper selection, and a record should be kept of who recommended the selection of every book.
Dimmock, Thomas. Lovejoy. An Address Delivered by Thomas Dimmock, at the Church of the Unity, St. Louis, March 14, 1888 . . . St. Louis, 1888. 28p. D170
This account of the life and martyrdom of Elijah P. Lovejoy is by a St. Louis newspaperman, who, as a young man in Alton shortly after the riots, became interested in the Lovejoy affair. He interviewed witnesses, examined documents, and in 1864 was instrumental in marking Lovejoy's grave.
"Discussing the Social Evil." Nation, 93:308-9, 5 October 1911. D171
Editorial criticism of the action of the post office in excluding from the mails the report of the Chicago Vice Commission.
Disher, M. Willson. "The Throne Is the Censor." Theatre World, 27:56, February 1937. D172
Stage censorship in England is incorporated in no written law. The throne is the censor, with the Lord Chamberlain exercising powers upon which no limits have been set, delivering judgment according to his own opinion rather than by recorded law.
Disraeli, Isaac. The Calamities of Authors. New York, Widdleton, 1875. 2 vols. D173
Vol. 1 contains an essay on Dangers Incurred by Giving the Result of Literary Inquiry (pp. 294-305), largely an account of the persecution of Dr. Cowell for his work, The Interpreter. Vol. 2 has a chapter on Martin Marprelate (pp. 357-92).
-------. Curiosities of Literature . . . New York, Armstrong, n.d. 4 vols. in 3. (Volumes of this work were first published over a period of years, from 1791 to 1834) D174
Sections relating to freedom of the press: Vol. I, Persecuted Learned (pp. 78-80), Imprisonment of Learned (pp. 87-89), Destruction of Books (pp. 101-12); Vol. 2, The Bible Prohibited and Improved (pp. 175-80), Licensers of the Press (pp. 399-414); Vol. 3, Condemned Poets (pp. 37-43), Of Suppressors and Delapidators of Manuscripts (pp. 200-212), and Expression of Suppressed Opinion (pp. 29-44).
"Distinction between Selection and Censorship." Wilson Library Bulletin, 36:598+, April 1962. D175
A brief note reporting the case of a Savannah, Ga., resident who charged the public librarian with censorship for not labeling as "subversive" Foreign Policy Association literature; a Spartanburg, S.C., resident who accused the public librarian of censorship for not buying Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan books.
"Distribution of Leaflets and Handbills--Municipal Regulation--Public Order." Canadian Bar Review, 19:49-50, January 1941. D176
The author is concerned with the tendency "to exalt order at the cost of liberty" and with the absence of the protection of legislation permitting distribution of controversial literature.
Ditchfield, Peter H. Books Fatal to Their Authors. London, E. Stock, 1895. 244p. (Book-lover's Library) D177
A series of essays, based on the author's wide reading and research, dealing with writers who lost their lives because of their unorthodox ideas. Topics include Theology; Fanatics and Freethinkers; Astrology, Alchemy and Magic; Science and Philosophy; History; Politics and Statesmanship; Satire; Poetry; Drama and Romance; Booksellers and Publishers, Some Literary Martyrs. A lecture by the author, Literature Martyrdoms, including much of the material from the book, was published by the Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom in Essays by Divers Hands, 2nd ser., vol. 2, pp. 35-69.
Ditzion, Sidney. "Censorship and Exclusion." In his Arsenals of a Democratic Culture. Chicago, American Library Association, 1947, pp. 183-87. D178
The author traces the efforts by city fathers, pressure groups, and librarians, to censor or exclude works from libraries.
-------. Marriage, Morals, and Sex in America. A History of Ideas. New York, Bookman, 1953. 440p. D179
America's sexual behavior from colonial times to the Kinsey Report. There are sections on the birth control movement and the struggle for freedom of sex education, Comstock laws, and references to such figures as Thomas Cooper, Mary Ware Dennett, Ezra Heywood, Abner Kneeland, Margaret Sanger, and Theodore A. Schroeder.
-------. "Problems of Propaganda Magazines." Wilson Bulletin, 11:21-24, September 1936. D180
Advice on selection of magazines of a controversial nature that will represent minority points of view without allowing such groups to use the library for propaganda purposes.
Dix, William. "Intellectual Freedom." Library Trends, 3:299-307, January 1955. D181 §
The librarian of Princeton University summarizes the work of the American Library Association "in formulating the concept of the intellectually free library, in promoting discussion and understanding of this concept among librarians, library trustees, and the public, and in responding to the recurring threats to intellectual freedom in an era marked by strong currents of anti-intellectualism."
-------. "The Public Library and the Citizen's Right to Find Out." Public Libraries, 7:1-2, 14-15, February 1953. D182
Dixon, Eric. "Obscene Publications." Penrose Annual, 54:73-77, 1960. D183
"The [British] Obscene Publications Act 1959, which makes a number of important improvements, is very much to be welcomed by the printing industry." The author discusses past problems and events leading up to the enactment of the Act.
Dixon, F. J. Dixon's address to the Jury. In Defence of the Freedom of Speech . . . and Judge Galt's Charge to the Jury. In Rex v. Dixon. Winnipeg, The Defence Committee, 1920. 126p. D184
Dixon was charged with publishing seditious libels in connection with a general strike.
Dixon, R. Billy Hughes and Censorship. [Sydney], Legal Rights (for Victory) Committee, 1942. 4p. D185
Relates to the Communist Party of Australia.
Dixon, Thomas. "Censorship." Publishers' Weekly, 105:1698-1701, 24 May 1924. D186
"As an author, I am bitterly and uncompromisingly opposed to pre-publication or previewing censorship, either of pictures or books . . . not only is censorship undemocratic and in violation of the fundamental principles upon which this Republic rests, but the establishment of a censorship will never accomplish the purpose for which it is established." Dixon calls upon book publishers to stand up and fight for their books. He comments on his own efforts to combat film censorship in Ohio, Virginia, and New York.
D'Joinville, Luigi A. "Necessity of Birth Control Propaganda." Mother Earth, 12:53-55, April 1917. D187
A defense of the freedom to provide information on birth control.
"Do You Want Radio Censorship?" Look, 3:6-11, 14 February 1939. D188
A pictorial account of recent censorship cases and the campaign for government censorship of radio that is confronting Congress.
Doan, Edward N. The Basis and Operation of Wartime Censorship in the United States. Madison, Wisc., University of Wisconsin, 1944. 363p. (Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation) D189
The author concludes that "despite the misgivings of a great many people, the operation of the Office of Censorship with respect to the voluntary code of censorship over news was successful to the point that it had the respect and goodwill of all practicing newspapermen and broadcasters." But, he also notes, from the point of view of both the disseminators of news and the general public, "the basic thinking of the armed forces with respect to 'policy' censorship needs overhauling" in the interest of an informed public in a democracy at war.
-------. "Organization and Operation of the Office of Censorship." Journalism Quarterly, 21:200-216, September 1944. D190
Government censorship in the United States during World War II; a summary of findings in the author's doctoral study.
Doctrine of Libels discussed and examined; a treatise showing from the best authorities, what shall be deemed Defamatory Writings, and how far the same are punishable by our laws. London, 1728. 136p. D191
Doerfer, John C., and Oren Harris. Questions of Responsibility. Columbia, Mo., Freedom of Information Center, School of Journalism, University of Missouri, 1960. 8p. (Publication no. 29) D192 §
Debate between the former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (Doerfer) and Representative Harris, chairman of the Legislative Oversight Committee, in the matter of government responsibility for radio and television programming.
Doering, Edward A. Federal Control of Broadcasting versus Freedom of the Air. Washington, D.C., Georgetown University, 1939. 56p. (Unpublished S.J.D. dissertation) D193
Discusses the licensing of radio broadcasting, based on a study of cases before the Federal Communications Commission. In place of the existing system for periodic renewal of licenses, which he believes creates insecurity, Doering recommends permanent "authorities" be granted to those who prove their operation is in the public interest.
Dolan, Edward. The Tree of Liberty and Palladium of the Press; the Advocate and Preservative of the People's Rights. 2nd ed. Detroit, Martin Geiger, 1847. 56p. D194
Dolan, John P. Radio Censorship; a Social Problem. St. Louis, St. Louis University, 1940. 80p. (Unpublished Master's thesis) D195
Dolan, Marguerite. "Books to Beat the Band." Cosmopolitan, 156:32, May 1964. D196
[Dolby, Thomas]. ["Trial, 1821"]. In Hansard's Parliamentary Debates, 5:1114 ff., 6 June 1821. D197
Dolby, long a proponent of reform in his Parliamentary Register, was arrested at the insistence of the Constitutional Association for an alleged libel in his paper, Pasquin. A few days later he was again arrested for selling A Political Dictionary. His original bail was forfeited and second bail required. There was a general outcry in the press opposing such tactics being used against a tradesman, and a petition of redress was submitted to Parliament. At the trial it developed that the jury was selected by the sheriff who was a member of the prosecuting Association. Dolby was eventually convicted but was not sentenced when he agreed to give up bookselling.
Dollen, Charles. "Censorship and Thought Control." Catholic Library World, 36:158-59, November 1964. D198 §
The Index of the Catholic Church as now constituted is ineffectual and the confusion it raises calls for a solution from the Fathers of Vatican II. "If the Index consisted of Monita [calling attention to error] rather than prohibitions, it would be a useful guide to the Catholic scholar and a real help in his work."
-------. "Freedom All Over the Place." Library Journal, 86:764-65, 15 February 1961. D199
"When does liberty become license? When the advocates of freedom become bigots themselves, that's when." The library director of the University of San Diego presents a case for censorship. Librarians should put their know-how at the service of parents in the drive for decency in literature. Written in response to Lloyd W. Griffith's review of Downs's The First Freedom, in Library Journal, 15 December 1960.
Dolye, H. G. "Censorship of Student Publications." School and Society, 28:78-80, 21 July 1928. D200
Doms, Keith. "The Challenge and the Small Public Library." ALA Bulletin, 47:465-66, November 1953. D201 §
A six-point program for action by the small public library "at the grass roots level" to preserve the freedom to read.
Don R. Mellett Memorial Fund. Lectures. New York, School of Journalism, New York University. Annual since 1931. D202
The lectureship was founded "to perpetuate in the free press of America the spirit of Don Mellett, who was assassinated July 16, 1926, by enemies made in his crusade against vice, corruption, and lawlessness permitted by the city government of Canton, Ohio." Each year, at a designated place in the United States, a lecture is delivered by a person selected by the committee. Among the lectures dealing specifically with freedom of the press were: The Right of Free Hearing; the Freedom of the Reader by Carl C. Magee (New York University Bulletin, vol. 33, no. 29, 1933); Freedom of News by Ray Roberts (Bulletin, vol. 34, no. 31, 1934); The Challenge of War to Freedom of the Press by Paul Bellamy (New York University, unnumbered bulletin, 1943); The Only Solid Basis for All Our Rights by Mark Ethridge (New York University, unnumbered bulletin, 1944); The Free and Responsible Press by George E. Sokolsky (New York University, unnumbered bulletin, 1947).
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