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Donahue, Charles. "Art and Censorship." Commonwealth, 66:84-85, 26 April 1957. D203
Donleavy, J. P. "What They Did in Dublin; an Account of the Closing of The Ginger Man in Dublin." In his The Ginger Man. New York, Random House, 1961, pp. 1-41. D204
Donnelly, Gerald B. "The Motion Picture and the Legion of Decency." In Public Opinion in a Democracy. Proceedings of the Institute of Human Relations. Issued as a special supplement to the January 1938 issue of Public Opinion Quarterly, pp. 42-44. D205
The Legion was organized to persuade the film industry to adopt a code of self-regulation. "The Legion resorted to the organization of public opinion and public pressure to induce the industry to establish and obey its own censors."
Donnelly, Richard C. "Defamation by Radio--A Reconsideration." Iowa Law Review, 34:12-40, November 1948. D206
The author proposes that defamatory statements made over the radio be classified as libel and not slander, that the radio station be held liable for defamation in programs not presenting adverse views on questions and persons of public interest, that the station not be held liable for utterances of candidates for public office. He endorses the White Bill which would relieve the radio station from liability for defamation.
-------. "Government and Freedom of the Press." Illinois Law Review, 45:31-56, March-April 1950. D207
The author notes these shortcomings in freedom of the press: (1) exclusion of movies in a definition of "press," (2) failure to subject the postal power to the guarantees under the First Amendment, (3) hesitancy to use the principle of disclosure legislation to attack clandestine anti-democratic propaganda, and (4) reluctance of the courts to employ the "clear and present danger" test in obscenity cases.
-------. "History of Defamation." Wisconsin Law Review, 1949:99-126, January 1949. D208
A history of the development of the concept of defamation in Anglo-American law, including the twin interests to protect the honor and reputation of the individual and the interest in the public peace and security. The advent of modern commercial media calls for the overhauling of the law of defamation.
-------. "The Law of Defamation: Proposals for Reform." Minnesota Law Review, 33:609-33, May 1949. D209
-------. "Right of Reply--An Alternative to an Action for Libel." Virginia Law Review, 34:867-900, November 1948. D210
Notes on radio law and court decisions, 1929-48.
Donogh, Walter R. The History and Law of Sedition and Cognate Offenses, Penal and Preventive, with a Summary of Press Legislation in India and an Excerpt of Acts in Force Relating to the Press, the Stage, and Public Meetings. 3d ed. Calcutta, Thacher, Spink, 1917; London, W. Tacker, 1917. 285p. D211
Includes a discussion of notable Indian sedition laws.
Donoghue, Denis. "Eight Propositions on Censorship." In International Writers' Conference, The Novel Today (Programme & Notes). Edinburgh, Edinburgh International Festival, 1962, pp. 51-53. D212
The author is a lecturer in English at University College, Dublin. "The greatest danger facing a writer from the direction of censorship," he concludes, "is not that he will be silenced, but that by meeting force with force he will undermine his own imagination." The fourth day of the Conference dealt with censorship.
Doob, Leonard W. Public Opinion and Propaganda. New York, Holt, 1948. 424p. (2d ed., Hamden, Conn., Archon Books, 1966. 612p.) D213
A general work on propaganda but with numerous references to pressure groups as censors, e.g., the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, pp. 206-12.
Doren, Electra C. "Action upon Bad Books." Library Journal, 28:167-69, April 1903. D214
Tells of the formation of a committee representing 23 organizations in Dayton, Ohio, to encourage and raise money for wider use of public school libraries in cooperation with public library neighborhood projects. A subcommittee of 9 was named to suppress bad books and to recommend prosecution of vile literature and sensational plays.
Dorman, P. H. Content Analysis Study of Articles Dealing With Censoring Activities in the United States, 1950-1957. Atlanta, School of Library Service, Atlanta University, 1959. 39p. (Unpublished Master's thesis) D215
"Dorothy the Librarian." Life, 46:47, 16 February 1959. D216
Brief editorial criticizing as "tiresome and spurious" the advice of the Florida state librarian, urging libraries to withdraw such books as Uncle Wiggly, Tom Swift, Tarzan, and the Wizard of Oz, because they are "poorly written, untrue to life, sensational, foolishly sentimental, and consequently unwholesome for the children in your community."
Dorrance, Dick, and Jo Ranson. "You Can't Sing That!" American Mercury, 48:324-26, November 1939. D217
"More frequently than the listener realizes, the lyrics of songs to which he dances at home have been amended or completely rewritten before given the right of the airwaves."
Dorsen, Norman. "Libel and the Free Press." Nation, 198:93-95, 27 January 1964. D218
Discussion of the New York Times libel case, in which the Alabama Supreme Court awarded to the plaintiff. The decision was ultimately reversed by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Dorward, Theo E. The Development of the Civil Libel Law in Texas as It Concerns Newspapers. Austin, Tex., University of Texas, 1940. 118p. (Unpublished Master's thesis) D219
Doty, Elias. Doty's Commentaries on the Moot Courts of Iowa. [Cedar Rapids, Iowa, The Author, 1903?]. 155p. D220
Concerns the case of Elias Doty, charged with keeping for sale and with selling obscene pictures.
[Dougherty, Daniel]. "License of the Press." Weekly Law Bulletin, 19:333-38, 21 May 1888. D221
Excerpts from an address before the State Bar Association of New York.
Dougherty, Kathryn. "Motion Pictures on Trial. Do You Want Censorship?" Photoplay, 46:32-33, 96, October 1934. D222
Douglas, James S. "Early Press Censorship." Antiaircraft Journal, 94(3):25-26, May-June 1951. D223
On the effort of General Ambrose E. Burnside, commanding the Department of the Ohio in the Civil War, to suppress the Chicago Times, 1863.
Douglas, William O. An Almanac of Liberty. New York, Doubleday, 1954. 409p. D224
A collection of brief essays and sketches on aspects of American freedom, including the following topics pertaining to freedom of the press: Alien and Sedition Laws, Trial of Zenger, Law of Obscenity, The Book Ulysses, Jefferson on Censorship, Trial of Thomas Paine, Stamp Act, Elijah P. Lovejoy, Governor Shute and Censorship, Distribution of Religious Literature, Licensing of the Press, Book Burning, Milton on Freedom of the Press, Books Banned by the State Department, Trial of Richard Carlile, Censorship of the American Stage, Censorship of the English Stage, and the Library Bill of Rights. A motion picture based on this work is distributed by the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, New York.
-------. "The Black Silence of Fear." New York Times Magazine, 13 January 1952, pp. 7, 37-38. D225
Deals with the growing intolerance in America to unorthodox opinion. "The times demand a renaissance in freedom of thought and freedom of expression, a renaissance that will end the orthodoxy that threatens to devitalize us."
-------. Freedom of the Mind. New York, American Library Association in Cooperation with the Public Affairs Committee, 1962. 44p. (Reading for an Age of Change Series, no. 3) D226
An Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court explains in popular language why freedom of the mind is a necessary principle in a democratic society and a major concern today. "Why and how the basic constitutional rights of freedom of thought, press, speech, and assembly have been threatened or actually curtailed. How freedom of information develops more responsible citizens." Reviewed in ALA Newsletter on Intellectual Freedom, January 1963, pp. 1-2.
-------. "The Public Trial and the Free Press." Nieman Reports, 14(3):3-7, July 1960. (Also in Rocky Mountain Law Review, 33:1-10, December 1960) D227 §
"Since defendants' rights are the interests protected by the public trial, the end is best served by banning all photography, broadcasting, and televising. The camel should be kept out of the tent, lest he take it over completely." The annual John E. Coen Lecture, delivered by Justice Douglas at the University of Colorado Law School, 10 May 1960.
-------. The Right of the People. New York, Doubleday, 1958. 238p. (North Lectures delivered at Franklin and Marshall College, 1957; reprinted by Pyramid Books) D228
Lecture 1 deals with freedom of expression, including the philosophy of the First Amendment, the conflict between free expression and other community values, and censorship and prior restraint. Justice Douglas concludes that the only protection against tyranny of the few or tyranny of the mob is "more freedom of expression rather than less."
Dover, Simon Thomas Brewster, and Nathan Brooks. "Trial, 1663." In Howell, State Trials, vol. 6, pp. 539th ff. D229 §
For publishing seditious pamphlets the three men were sentenced to be fined, pilloried, and held in prison during the king's pleasure. The king's chief censor, Roger L'Estrange, testified against the defendants. The judge commented that, except for the compassion of the king, the three should have been put to death for treason.
Dow, Lorenzo. The Stranger in Charleston! or, The Trial and Confession of Lorenzo Dow, Addressed to the United States in General, and South Carolina in Particular. 3d ed. Wheeling, Va., Printed by R. I. Curtis, 1826. 94p. (First edition published in Boston, 1821) D230
Libel on the Rev. William Hammett, in Charleston, in the State Court of Sessions, 17 May 1821.
Dow, Orrin B. "The Last Temptation and The First Freedom." NCLA Odds and Bookends, 43:9-11, Fall 1963. D231
A public library board (Farmingdale, N.Y.) by unanimous vote defended the library's purchase of copies of Kazantzakis' Last Temptation of Christ against charges of blasphemy. Opposition to the board's action, particularly from the Independent Active Citizens of Farmingdale, was believed to have been responsible for the defeat at the polls of the library's budget. This article includes text of a leaflet used in the campaign--"Protesting Defamation of Christ (in your local library)" and urging a "no" vote on the library's budget. A reactivated Friends of the Library, following the election, waged a vigorous campaign on behalf of the library and when the budget was resubmitted to voters it passed.
Dowden, Wilfred S., and T. N. Marsh, eds. The Heritage of Freedom; Essay on the Rights of Free Men. New York, Harper, 1962. 283p. D232
Includes Benjamin Franklin's An Apology for Printers, from the Pennsylvania Gazette, 10 June 1731 (pp. 76-82); J. S. Mill's On Liberty of Thought and Discussions (pp. 5-33); Elmer Davis' Men and the Whole Truth, from his But We Were Born Free (pp. 57-75); Milton's Areopagitica (pp. 83-111); Alexis de Tocqueville's Liberty of the Press in the United States (pp. 112-18); Zechariah Chafee Jr.'s Freedom of Speech and Press, from his A Freedom Agenda (pp. 140-56); and John Locke's A Letter Concerning Toleration, 1689 (pp. 231-53).
Dowell, Eldridge. "Criminal Syndicalism Legislation, 1935-1939." Public Opinion Quarterly, 4:299-304, June 1940. D233
Efforts by several states to alter the statutes covering criminal syndicalism.
-------. A History of Criminal Syndicalism Legislation in the United States. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University, 1939. 176p. (Studies in Historical and Political Science, series 57, no. 1) D234
Dowling, Margaret. "Sir John Hayward's Trouble over His Life of Henry IV." Library, 11 (4th ser.): 212-24, 1931. D235
Hayward was tried for treason in 1600 because his book was found objectionable to Queen Elizabeth. The Bishop of London ordered it to be burnt. Hayward was sentenced to imprisonment and would have lost his life but for the support of Sir Francis Bacon.
Downfall of Temporizing Poets, unlicenst Printers, upstart Booksellers, Trotting Mercuries, and bawling Hawkers. Being a very pleasant Dialogue between Lightfoot the Mercury, and Suck-bottle the Hawker, Rednose the Poet being Moderator between them; the corruption's of all which by their conference is plainly described. London, J. Barker, 1614. 5p. D236
A ribald description of the unrestrained and irresponsible trade of printing and bookselling that existed in seventeenth-century England, with frequent issues of scandalous and untruthful works.
Downs, Robert B. "Apologist for Censorship." Library Journal, 86:2042, 44, 1 June 1961. D237 §
A criticism of James J. Kilpatrick's Smut Peddlers. Kilpatrick begins his researches in obscenity, writes Downs, with a reasonably unbiased viewpoint but "emerges embracing and condoning the NODL, the Citizens for Decent Literature, Americans for Moral Decency, and similar extra-legal private pressure groups, and advocating stringent repressive legislation." Testimony of medical, psychiatric, and sociological authorities, Downs points out, does not support the contention that pornography is a significant factor in contributing to juvenile delinquency.
-------. "Book Banning v. the Right to Read." Kansas Business Review, 15(3):2-4, March 1962. (Also in College Store Journal, 29:100-104, August-September 1962) D238
Banning a book automatically creates a universal desire to read it and frequently makes a bestseller out of a mediocre work that would otherwise be overlooked. Censorship, furthermore, is futile since ideas cannot be killed by destroying the book that contains them.
-------. "The Book Burners Cannot Win." In Robert S. Allen Reports, newspaper column distributed by Hall Syndicate, 14 September 1953. (Reprinted in Downs, The First Freedom, pp. 310-12) D239 §
During the controversy over censorship in U.S. Information Libraries overseas, the retiring president of the American Library Association discusses the issues from the point of view of librarians. Would-be censors never learn two basic facts about censorship: (1) censorship creates a desire for the banned book, and (2) ideas cannot be killed by suppression.
-------. "Censorship." In the American Library Annual and Book Trade Almanac, 1959. New York, Bowker, 1958, pp. 91-92. D240
A summary of the year's events involving libraries and the work of the ALA. Committee on Intellectual Freedom.
-------. "Communist Propaganda." Library Journal, 87:2506-7, July 1962. D241
A statement prepared for the American Council on Education for use in testimony in opposition to the "Cunningham Amendment" to the Postal Revision Act of 1962. The amendment provides that no international mail determined by the Attorney General to be Communist propaganda may be handled by the U.S. Post Office and that no Communist propaganda mailed within the United States may be sent under any postal rate established by the Act. Downs comments on the effect this legislation, if passed, would have on library resources and research activities.
-------. The First Freedom; Liberty and Justice in the World of Books and Reading. Chicago, American Library Association, 1960. 469p. D242 §
An anthology of 88 notable writings of the past 50 years by American and British authors on the censorship of books. The first two chapters place the problem of censorship in its historical setting and present the broad issues. The remaining chapters deal with famous legal decisions, pressure groups, obscenity, political subversion, the attitude of writers and librarians, censorship in the public schools, censorship in Ireland and under dictatorships. The final chapter deals with prospects for the future. Downs has written introductions to each chapter and each selection. The collection brings together in one volume many important but elusive works in the development of freedom of the press.
-------. "Liberty and Justice in Books." ALA Bulletin, 51:407-10, June 1957. D243 §
The first American Library Association Liberty and Justice Book Awards presented 25 April 1957 in New York furnished "another demonstration of its long-time concern with American tradition of freedom." An account of the awards and the winners, and a list of the distinguished panel of judges.
-------. "Trustees and Intellectual Freedom." Illinois Libraries, 45:256-59, May 1963. D244 §
Doyle, Donald D. "If You Believe in Freedom." California Librarian, 18:43-44, 59-60, January 1957. D245
The chairman of the Education Committee of the California Legislature, describes for the Intellectual Freedom Committee of the California Library Association the legislative history of Senate Bill 1671. This bill, which failed of passage, provided that every school board in the state adopt regulations for selection and review of all material in school libraries and that their regulations should prohibit "books or other materials which teach, advocate, sponsor, or otherwise tend to propagate ideas or principles contrary to or at variance with" the state education code which provides for teaching principles of morality, truth, justice, and patriotism.
Doyle, James. A Special Report of the Trial of the Rev. Vladimir Petcherine (one of the Redemptorist Fathers) in the Court House, Green-Street, Dublin, December 1855, on an indictment charging him with burning the Protestant Bible, at Kingston. Dublin, James Duffy, 1856. D246
A Catholic priest was brought to trial for allegedly burning two copies of the Protestant Bible along with two wheelbarrow loads of books considered "pestilential." He was acquitted. A lengthy article in defense of Father Petcherine, who, the author believed, was being persecuted for his religious zeal while infidel literature was allowed to flourish, appears in the Dublin Review, March 1856, under the title, Bible Blasphemy.
Doyle, James A. "Free Speech and Fair Trials." Nebraska Law Review, 22:1-16, March 1943. D247
Discussion of the effect of U.S. Supreme Court decisions upon constitutional doctrine respecting the absoluteness of freedom of the press in relation to reporting of court trials.
Drakard, John. "Trial for a Seditious Libel, 1811." In Howell, State Trials, vol. 31, pp. 495 ff. D248 §
Drakard was brought to trial for publishing in his Stamford News an article criticizing corporal punishment in the Army. He was convicted and given 18 months' imprisonment.
Draper, John, W. History of the Conflict between Religion and Science. New York, Appleton, 1896. 367p. (First published in 1876) D249
The historic struggle between the doctrines of the Catholic Church and the discoveries of science. Numerous references to censorship and suppression of thought. The work itself was placed on the Catholic Index.
-------. Thoughts on the Future Civil Policy of America. New York, Harper, 1865. 325p. D250
Chapter 3 deals with the political force of ideas. Censorship of literature and art are discussed on pp. 284 ff.
Dreiser, Theodore. "Life, Art and America." Seven Arts, 2:363-89, February 1917. D251
The author comments on America's moral and social drift as it relates to mental freedom. He is "constantly astonished by the thousands of men, exceedingly capable in some mechanical or narrow technical sense, whose world or philosophic vision is that of a child." The tendency today is to even narrower and more puritanic standards than in the past. "Personally, my quarrel is with America's quarrel with original thought." Dreiser protests the activities of reformers, such as Comstock, and their followers, and regards such interference with serious art and serious minds as an outrage.
-------. "The Meddlesome Decade: How Censorship Is Making Our Civilization Ridiculous." Theatre Guild Magazine, 6(8):11-13, 61-62, May 1929. D252
"Today we are faced with one of the most fanatical and dangerous forms of censorship that ever existed, because the effect of all such activity is to reduce all human intelligence to one level--and that level about that of a low grade (not even a high-grade) moron!" Dreiser speaks of "'Bands' and 'clubs' and 'societies' and 'daughters' of this or 'sons' of that or 'mothers' of the other thing--the sole purpose of which is the protection and guidance of public manners and morals." He gives numerous examples from newspaper articles, city ordinances, bills in the legislatures, and court decisions, which attest to the hysteria in America in the decade following World War I. "Censorship by threat, without protection of law," has become the established system in America.
Drinker, Eugene. "Ordinance Prohibiting Anonymous Handbills." Wayne Law Review, 6:420-25, Summer 1960. D253
Regarding Talley v. California, 362 U.S. 60 (1960), Lovell v. Griffin, 303 U.S. 444 (1937), and related cases.
Drinker, Henry S. Some Observations on the Four Freedoms of the First Amendment: Freedom of Speech, Freedom of the Press, Freedom of Assembly and Petition, Freedom of Religion. Boston, Boston University Press, 1957. 69p. (The Gasper G. Bacon Lectures on the Constitution of the United States) D254
General considerations which prompted the adoption of the First Amendment and the court decisions that have interpreted it. Drinker recommends as a test, the determination as to whether a person in a particular case has been deprived of a substantial right of one of the basic freedoms.
Drinnon, Richard. Rebel in Paradise; A Biography of Emma Goldman. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1961, 349p. D255
A biography of the American anarchist who, for more than 50 years, was an "archetype rebel," challenging the social, political, and intellectual convictions of the American people. She was frequently involved in issues of freedom of speech and the press, either in her own behalf or in defense of others. She figured prominently in the birth control movement, she challenged Comstock and the vice societies, and took part in wartime espionage cases. Her journal, Mother Earth, often reported attacks on press freedom.
Driver, Tom F. "Shylock on Television." Christianity and Crisis, 22:126-27, 23 July 1962. D256
Editorial comment on the objection of the New York Board of Rabbis to the television presentation of Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice. He calls their stand ill-advised. "We do not understand why it is not obvious, especially to a group long subjected to 'minority' discrimination, that the surest way to excite hostility is to restrain freedom of speech."
Drone, Eaton S. A Treatise on the Law of Property in Intellectual Productions in Great Britain and the United States . . . Boston, Little, Brown, 1879. 774p. D257
An early American study of copyright theory and practice; still useful for historical reference.
Drummond, Isabel. The Sex Paradox. New York, Putnam, 1953. 369p. D258
This study of the legal aspects of sexual delinquency includes a chapter on Obscenity and Defamation, in which the author discusses the historical development of obscenity and efforts to control it, and the application of defamation laws in the realm of sex expression.
Drummond, J. Roscoe. "Open Letter about 'Book Burning.'" Nieman Reports, 7(3):38, July 1953. (Reprinted from Christian Science Monitor, 16 June 1953) D259
The letter relates to the suppression of books in U.S. overseas libraries. Other newspaper articles and editorials on the topic are also reprinted in this issue of Nieman Reports.
-------. "Public Duty of a Free Press." In Public Opinion in a Democracy. Proceedings of the Institute of Human Relations. Issued as a special supplement to the January 1938 issue of Public Opinion Quarterly, pp. 59-62. D260
The editor of the Christian Science Monitor, which prints no crime news, recommends that newspapers "make 1 per cent of crime news look like 1 per cent and not 50 per cent," thus recognizing the social importance of the news. A free press "is not guaranteed merely for either the convenience or the commerce of newspapers but to protect free speech and free institutions, to preserve the free processes of democratic government." The major danger to a free press is from within and lies with publishers and editors who do not use their freedom to good purpose.
Dryer, Sherman H. Radio in Wartime. New York, Greenberg, 1942, 384p. D261
Criticism of the failure of radio to realize its full potential in meeting wartime challenges. Following the author's views, differences of opinion are provided by the comments of seven distinguished critics.
[Duane, William]. Biographical Memoir of William J. Duane. Philadelphia, Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1868. 28p. D262
Duane succeeded Bache as editor of the Republican Aurora and continued the paper's invective against the Adams administration. He was brought to trial on a charge of seditious libel. The case was dropped when Duane insisted on producing an Adams letter in his defense. In March 1800 a committee of the U.S. Senate, after a bitter controversy over the freedom of the press, found Duane guilty of seditious utterances in his reporting of proceedings of the Senate and ordered him to appear before that body to defend his conduct. Duane employed Alexander J. Dallas and Thomas Cooper as his counsels, but they refused to represent him before the Senate. "I will not degrade myself by submitting to appear before the Senate with their gag in my mouth," wrote Cooper. Duane failed to appear before the Senate and his arrest was ordered. He went into hiding until Congress had adjourned. He was later indicted by a federal grand jury under the Sedition law, but the proceedings were dropped with the advent of the Jefferson administration. A full account of "William Duane, the Aurora, and the Alien and Sedition Laws" is given in Smith, Freedom's Fetters, pp. 277-306. Senator Jonathan Dayton's "Report on Libels on the Senate," dealing with the Aurora case, appears in the Journal of the Senate, 6th Congr., 1st sess., pp. 170-74, 194-95.
[-------, et. al.]. "Trial of Duane, Reynolds, Moore and Cuming, for Seditious Riot. In the Court of Oyer and Terminer for the County of Philadelphia, 1799." In Wharton, State Trials, pp. 345-91. D263 §
The trial has no direct relation to freedom of the press, but pertains to a charge of stirring up a seditious riot outside a Catholic church in attempting to get signatures on a petition to repeal the Alien Act. While Duane played only a minor role in the affair, as editor of the Republican paper he was considered by the prosecution to be the most important figure in the case. The jury acquitted the defendants, and the Federalists lost the first skirmish in their campaign to suppress the Republican editor.
Dubois, Jules. Freedom Is My Beat. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, 1959, 295p. D264
A correspondent for the Chicago Tribune writes of his 30 years experience in seeking to preserve and extend press freedom throughout Latin America. In 1951 Dubois was named chairman of the Freedom of the Press Committee of the Inter American Press Association.
Duckett, Kenneth W., and Francis Russell. "The Harding Papers: How Some Were Burned . . . and Some Were Saved." American Heritage, 16(2):24-31, 102-10, February 1965. D265 §
"Controversy, the inevitable result of secrecy and suppression, still swirls about the life and Presidency of Warren Gamaliel Harding, who came to the White House in 1921 in the bright sunlight of landslide victory and left it in death, shadowed by scandal, less than three years later . . . Tampering with his papers--even the outright burning of many of them--began almost with Harding's funeral; the censorship has continued over the decades since. That story is told . . . by the curator of manuscripts at the Ohio Historical Society, Kenneth W. Duckett . . . Francis Russell gives his account of the recently publicized Harding-Phillips love letters; he found them in Marion, Ohio, and tried to place them in the custody of the Ohio Historical Society, with explosive results into which this magazine has been drawn."--The Editors.
Dudley, Dorothy. Forgotten Frontiers; Dreiser and the Land of the Free. New York, Smith and Haas, 1932. 484p. D266
Numerous references to the suppression of Theodore Dreiser's novels.
Dudley, Edward P. "Danger to Libraries." Assistant Librarian, 49:202-3, December 1956. D267
The threat of pressure groups producing an intolerance of that which does not conform. This is a greater danger to libraries than overt political and government action.
"Due Process for Whom--Newspaper or Defendant?" Stanford Law Review, 4:101-11, December 1951. D268
The primary concern should be to secure a fair trial. If newspapers adhere to ethical standards in reporting, the problem would be minimized. Where newspapers are unfair, a change of venue may be necessary.
Duesenberg, Richard W. "Crime Comic Books: Government Control and Their Impact on Juvenile Conduct." Mercer Law Review, 7:331-51, Spring 1956. D269
While society demands measures to preserve and protect the health and welfare of youth, the interest of freedom of the press militates against the regulation of comic books. For this reason and because of the lack of evidence with respect to the effect of the reading of comic books on juvenile behavior, anticomic book legislation should not be upheld. The author recommends a countermovement of private organizations to produce results.
Duess, Harriet G. "Between the Devil of Censorship and the Deep Sea of Propaganda." Matrix, 20(3):7, February-March 1935. D270
Problems of a foreign correspondent.
[Duffin, Patrick W., and Thomas Lloyd]. The Trial of P. W. Duffin, a Late Captain of the Fourth Company in the Volunteer Regiment of Irish Brigade, Dublin. And Thomas Lloyd, a Citizen of the United States of America, for a Supposed Libel. To which is annexed, a Letter to Thomas Pinckney, the American Minister; wherein Thomas Lloyd claims the Interference of the United States of America, to obtain him a Satisfaction for the Unparalleled Tortures, and cruel Oppressions which he has experienced under the British Government . . . 2d ed. London, Printed for D. J. Eaton, 1793. 46p. D271
Duffin and Lloyd were charged in 1792 with posting libelous and seditious notices on the chapel of Fleet prison: "This house to let . . . on or before the 1st day of January, 1793, being the commencement of the first year of liberty in Great Britain!!" Their actions reflected the support in England of the French Revolution. Lloyd was given three years in Newgate prison and pilloried; Duffin was sentenced to two years in prison at New Compter.
Dugan, Frank H. "An Illinois Martyrdom." Illinois State Historical Society, Papers in Illinois History and Transactions for the Year 1938, pp. 111-57. D272
The story of Elijah P. Loveioy and his death in defense of a free press in Alton, Ill., in 1837. The author gives special attention to the part which the Puritan minority played in the events leading to the Alton riots. He has relied largely on contemporary letters and newspaper accounts. The article is based on a Master's thesis at Northwestern University.
Dugan, John T. "License of Liberty: Art, Censorship, and American Freedom." Journal of Aesthetics, 12:366-72, March 1954. D273
Under the First Amendment art should be entitled to the same freedom from censorship prior to exposure, as a newspaper. Censorship of the arts is an insult both to the intelligence and the moral strength of American citizens.
-------. "Right to Dissent: Fear or Freedom for the American Dramatist?" In Theatre Annual, 1955. New York, The Theatre Library Association, 1955, pp. 7-15. D274
"We must have the courage born of faith in the aesthetic, political, and moral rightness of our freedom to produce and enjoy drama which reflects truth and beauty as we see it, whether this vision is contrary to the transient mores of the times or not." The dramatist should have the same freedom of expression as artists working in other media. Not censorship, but fear of it, has prevented many great ideas from being expressed in the theater.
Dulles, Avery. The Legion of Decency. Washington, D.C., America Press, 1956. 31p. D275
A pamphlet explaining the purpose and method of operation of the Legion and answering objections to its program.
Dunbar, Mathilda. "Dictionary of American Slang Controversy." Manitoba Library Association Bulletin, 12:14-17, Winter 1964-65. D276
Duncan, W. G. K. "A Librarian's First Loyalty." Australian Library Journal, 10:163-74, October 1961; also in ALA Bulletin, 56:509-19, June 1962. D277
The librarian's vocation is "to promote and foster the free flow of information and ideas throughout his community; . . . no matter what a librarian thinks and feels as a private person, he should feel obliged, qua librarian, to resist the pressures in his community towards censorship."
Duniway, Clyde A. The Development of Freedom of the Press in Massachusetts. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1906. 202p. (Harvard Historical Studies, vol. 12) D278
A study of the evolution of press freedom in the colonies, and particularly in Massachusetts. The author begins with a survey of English restrictions on printing and the development of English common law. He discusses the institution of royal control over the colonial press, the struggle of Massachusetts editors and publishers against executive and legislative restrictions and the stamp act, the development of constitutional guarantees, persecution under the Sedition Act, and, finally, the passage in 1827 of a just and reasonable libel law. A well-documented and basic source of information on censorship in the American colonies.
Dunker, George F., Jr. "Constitutional Law: State Commission's Extralegal Censorship." California Law Review, 51:620-26, August 1963. D279
Bantam Books, Inc. v. Sullivan, 372 U.S. 58 (1963), relating to action of the Rhode Island Commission to Encourage Morality in Youth.
Dunkerley, Madeline. "Censorship in Public Libraries." Australian Library Journal, 7(2):22-23, April 1958. D280
A report of the chief librarian of Burwood, New South Wales, to the City Council in answer to charges made by a citizen that immoral novels were in the public library. Miss Dunkerley describes the library's book selection policy, noting that it was not the business either of the librarian or the City Council to impose standards of morality on the adult members of the community through censorship of books. If a book is banned by court authority it is not placed on the library shelves. "Otherwise my choice of adult fiction and literary works is not influenced by moral, religious or political considerations, nor do I think it should be." The library recognizes the right of citizens to be repelled by certain books and to express their repulsion to others "but not the right to force their standards on others by demanding the suppression of what they dislike." The Council commended Miss Dunkerley for her handling of the situation and recommended that a copy of her statement be sent to the complainant.
Dunkley, Mrs. G. S. "Selection Policies Defended to Allay Fears of Censors." Library Journal, 80:2881-83, 15 December 1955. D281
Dunlap, Andrew. A Speech delivered before the Municipal Court of the City of Boston, in Defence of Abner Kneeland, on an Indictment for Blasphemy. January Term, 1834. By Andrew Dunlap. Boston, Printed for the Publisher, 1834. 132p. D282
An eloquent address in behalf of Abner Kneeland, delivered by his attorney who, while dissenting from the doctrine of the defendant, claimed for him "the same legal right to the enjoyment, and the maintenance of his opinions, by his voice and his pen, which we claim for ourselves, as our political birthright, guaranteed by our glorious Revolution; and proclaimed in our immortal Bill of Rights." Dunlap based his defense on two grounds--the offense charged was not within the Statute and the Statute was a violation of the letter and spirit of the Constitution. When the judge inquired of Kneeland's religious beliefs, Dunlap responded: "That is an affair between him and God, not between him and your Honor. He does not consider that he is bound to make a confession of faith here." Dunlap concluded his defense: "If the defendant shall fall in this prosecution, a nobler victim will fall with him, for the blow which is aimed at the prisoner at the bar, is a fatal blow to the Constitution of his country."
Dunlap, Leslie W. "Censorship." In American Library Annual for 1957-1958. New York, Bowker, 1958, pp. 134-36. D283
A summary of the year's events involving censorship in libraries.
Dupee, F. W. "Lolita in America." Encounter, 12:30-35, February 1959. D284
Account of the publishing history of Nabokov's Lolita and its reception in America.
Durham, Frank M. "Mencken as Missionary." American Literature, 29:478-83, January 1958. D285
Mencken's protest at the attempt to suppress Theodore Dreiser's, The Genius.
Durham, M. E. "A Very Free Press." New Statesman and Nation, 1:352-53, 2 May 1931. D286
The author describes his experience under a completely free press in Albania after the Young Turk revolution of 1908, which was so abused by scurrilous personal attacks that it led of action in Defence of the Realm and the expulsion of the editor. "Too much Freedom," the author concludes, "is not really good for anyone."
"Durham, 1964. The A.A.L. and Censorship." Assistant Librarian, 57:113-17, July 1964. D287
In a conference of the Association of Assistant Librarians held at Durham, T. S. Broadhurst of Liverpool University Library discussed why books are censored and what legal measures can be applied; Bill Smith, editor of Books and Bookmen, spoke about censorship of films, stage, and television, as well as books; T. E. Callander, chief librarian of Croydon, spoke from the point of view of the practicing librarian.
Durr, Clifford J. "Freedom of Speech for Whom." Public Opinion Quarterly, 8:391-406, Fall 1944. D288 §
The author, a member of the Federal Communications Commission, expresses dissatisfaction with the restrictions placed on content of radio programs by the networks, who in turn are influenced by the advertisers.
Dutt, R. Palme, and R. Page Arnot. "Press Freedom." Labour Monthly, 30:113-19, April 1948. D289 §
The reply made by the editors of this Marxist intellectual journal to the questionnaire of the Royal Commission on the Press. The statement reviews the struggle for freedom of the press in Great Britain. True press freedom requires the social ownership of the press, in place of the present monopoly-capitalist ownership.
"The Duty of a Newspaper." Spectator, 115:649, 13 November 1915. D290
Wartime censorship on reporting of Parliamentary debate.
Duvillard, E. "The Censorship of Films for the Young." International Review of Educational Cinematography, 3:136-42, February 1931. (Translated from the French) D291
"M. Duvillard asserts that film censorship has missed its aim and that the chief reason of its inefficiency lies in the fact that it attempts to replace the authority and mind of the father of the family, and to impose, as representing the majority's will, views that do not correspond to general opinion." He objects to creating a special censorship of films for children; this is the responsibility of the parents.
Dwight, Timothy. Essay on the Stage; in Which the Arguments in Its Behalf, and Those Against It, Are Considered; and Its Morality, Character and Effects Illustrated. Middletown, Conn., 1824. 166p. D292
Dyer, George. Address to the People of Great Britain, on the Doctrine of Libels, and the Office of Juror. London, The Author, 1799. 120p. D293
Dyke, Stewart. USIA: Tbe Murrow Years. Columbia, Mo., Freedom of Information Center, School of Journalism, University of Missouri, 1964. 6p. (Publication no. 127) D294 §
"Murrow did more to redefine, reshape and upgrade the role of the United States Information Agency than anyone else in the ten-year history of the agency."
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