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Norden, Helen B. "The Crime of Censorship." Vanity Fair, 43:48, 50, September 1934. N203
An attack on movie censorship as "colossal stupidity . . . one of those unfortunate recurrences of mob epidemics which sometimes sweep our land, revealing us, by and large, as still pretty much in our mental infancy, and making us the laughing stock of the other nations." If "parents feel that their progeny really are too susceptible--they pick up things so quicky the little tykes!--let them keep them home from allegedly objectionable pictures." In order to protect children we should not inflict censorship on a nation of adults.
Noriega, Raul. "Draft Convention on Freedom of Information with Text." U.N. Bulletin, 10:210-13, 1 March 1951. N204
The author, chairman of the Committee on Freedom of Information, reports on the 27 meetings of the Assembly's Committee on the Draft Convention on Freedom of Information.
Norris, Hoke. "Cancer in Chicago." Evergreen Review, 6(25):40-66, July-August 1962. N205
The book review editor of the Chicago Sun-Times reports the trial of Tropic of Cancer before Judge Samuel B. Epstein in Cook County, Illinois, Superior Court. The case grew out of action taken by Chicago suburban police against the Henry Miller book. Judge Epstein found the book not to be pornographic, but coming under the protection of the First and Fourteenth Amendments. The book has both social and literary significance and its effect on children is irrelevant. "Let the parents control the reading matter of their children; let the tastes of the readers determine what they may or may not read; let not the government or the courts dictate the reading matter of a free people."
North, Anthony. "Extra! Extra! Has America a Free Press?" New Outlook, 163:13-17, April 1934. N206
The author comments on the various threats to a free press within the industry itself, including unionization of the printing trades, the Newspaper Guild, and the NRA, but believes the most serious threat is an economic one--action by the public in refusing to buy newspapers critical of the New Deal.
The North Briton. Nos. 1 to 45. London, printed for G. Kearsley, 5 June 1762-23 April 1763 (folio). An additional number (46) was issued 12 November 1763, printed for J. Williams. The first collected edition was published in 2 vols. (small octavo) for J. Williams in 1763. Bingley's folio reprint, "Corrected and revised by a Friend to Civil and Religious Liberty," was issued in a 164-page folio volume by W. Bingley in 1769. N207
The periodical published by John Wilkes which led to his arrest and imprisonment. It was started with the purpose of opposing the government-licensed Briton, and many of its articles relate to government control of political discussion. It was the now-famous issue no. 45, published 23 April 1763, that brought government action against Wilkes. For reprinting no. 45 in his own house as part of the first collected edition, Wilkes was fined and imprisoned; J. Williams, the publisher, was fined, imprisoned, and pilloried. A full account of the bibliographical history of The North Briton is contained in Notes and Queries, 9:104-6 (7th ser.), 8 February 1890, signed J.T.Y. The account also refers to suppressed vol. 3, contents of which are described in Notes and Queries, 10 August 1889. Only a few copies of this third volume have survived.
[Norwood, Robert]. A Brief Discourse Made by Capt. Robert Norwood on Wednesday last, the 28 of January, 1651. In the Upper-Bench-Court at Westminster: With some Arguments by him then given, in defence of himself, and prosecution of his Writ of Errour by him brought upon an Indictment found and adjudged against him upon an Act against Blasphemy, at the Sessions in the old Bayly . . .London, 1652. 6p. N208
Norwood was brought to trial for blasphemy at the instigation of his pastor to whom he had given a paper to read outlining his religious beliefs. Norwood was excommunicated and given a six-month sentence. In the course of his defense, Norwood objects to the use of a joint indictment with one, M. Tany, and to the introduction of evidence based on the spoken word.
Nossaman, Walter A. "Free Speech in Wartime." California State Bar Journal, 17:109-15, May-June 1942. N209
"Notes on the Newspaper Stamp." Fraser's Magazine, 44:339-54, September 1851. N210
A discussion of the controversy over a stamp tax versus newspaper postage as it relates to freedom of the press. Commentary on the report of a House of Parliament Select Committee.
"The Novelist Rebels." Nation, 113:255-56, 7 September 1921. N211
An imaginary conversation between a novelist and his friend, in which the novelist analyzes the difficulty of examining the psychical grounds of human action in fiction in the presence of opposition through ignorance and fanaticism. He concludes, "We must destroy the censorship not because it forbids books but because it corrupts souls."
Nowell, Dix W. "Defamation of Public Officers and Candidates." Columbia Law Review, 49:875-903, November 1949. N212
The author suggests that much of the uncertainty of the law would be avoided "if all comments and statements about political officers and candidates would be conditionally privileged." This would provide needed encouragement to those who wish to speak out honestly, but would at the same time guarantee adequate protection to officers and candidates.
Noyes, Theodore W. Newspaper Libels, The National Capital, and Notes of Travel. Washington, D.C., B. S. Adams, 1894. 131p. N213
"The Nude in Art; The Nude in Education." Outlook, 83:871-72, 18 August 1906. N214
An editorial on Anthony Comstock's attempt to suppress a periodical published by the Art Students' League. Two press comments are quoted: Harvard Professor Charles H. Moore, who disposes of "certain superficial defenses interposed on behalf of the indiscriminate publication of the nude in art," and Charles Henry Smith, Professor of American History at Yale, who is critical of suppression of pictures and statues of the human body in education and calls for more familiarity with the appearance of the human body.
Nugent, J. C. "Speaking of Censorship." Authors' League Bulletin, 15(1):8-9, April 1927 N215
Playwright Nugent favors some censorship, preferably from within the profession, that "establishes quickly and firmly the legitimate limits of our legitimate profession."
Nullius Nominis, pseud. An Apologie for the Six Book-Sellers, Subscribers of the Second Beacon Fired. Or A Vindication of them from the foul and unjust aspersions cast upon them by M. John Goodwin in a late Pamphlet Intituled A Fresh Discovery of the High Presbyterian Spirit . . . London, Printed by S.G. for Matthew Keinton, 1655. 12p. N216
No. 49040. "Writing the Hard Way." Saturday Review, 48(37):34, 11 September 1965. N217
The prison censorship faced by inmates who attempt to get their manuscripts published. The author has been an inmate of various reformatories and prisons since 1950 and hopes to write professionally when he is released.
Nutting, Charles B. "Definitive Standards in Federal Obscenity Legislation." Iowa Law Review, 23:24-40, November 1937. N218
The author traces the development of federal legislation "designed to keep from the mails and other channels of interstate commerce those things which have been regarded as unfit for the public eye." He is critical of the present act because it places too much power in the hands of the Postmaster General in interpreting and controlling obscene matter. That official is, potentially, "a most powerful literary critic and censor of morals."
Nye, Russel B. Fettered Freedom; Civil Liberties and the Slavery Controversy, 1830-1860. East Lansing, Michigan State College Press, 1949. 273p. rev. ed., 1965. 353 p. N219
In this study of the slavery controversy as it affected the civil liberties of the American people two chapters deal especially with the freedom of the press: Chapter 2, The Right of Petition and the Right to Use the Mails; Chapter 4, Abolitionism and Freedom of the Press. In the latter there is a discussion of the work of James G. Burney and Cassius Clay, and the martyrdom of Elijah P. Lovejoy.
-------. "Freedom of the Press and the Antislavery Controversy." Journalism Quarterly, 22:1-11, March 1945. N220
A brief report of a study, made under a Rockefeller Foundation grant, and later published as a book under the title Fettered Freedom.
Nyholm, J. P. "American Way." Wilson Library Bulletin, 14:555-59, April 1940. N221
If American libraries are to operate as democratic institutions they must accept the literature of minority groups and the literature of sex, both imaginative and scientific. A reply by J. A. Work, Jr., appears in the November 1940 issue.
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