File. Censorship of the press

Reference No:
U DCL/4/4
Dates:
1938-1941
Description:

Press cuttings including reference to:

a) MPs' tapped phone calls

b) Censorship of anti-fascist poster

c) References to Sir John Reith, Ramsey MacDonald, Mrs Clare Luce, George Bernard Shaw, Mr Duff Cooper, Mr De Valera.

d) Suppression of Rude Pravo, Communist Party daily paper. Daily Worker. Letters to MPs. The Penguin Hansard. Peace News.

e) Chamberlain - Eden affair.

f) Chamberlain's 'hush-hush' policy - mentions Hoare-Laval Crisis, Nazi censorship, appeasement, official secrets legislation.

g) Civil Liberty Pamphlet, Dec-Nov 1940, mentions Recall conference on Civil Liberty and the Defeat of Fascism. British Liberty in Danger. Political Censorship.

h) Southampton ban on religious press.

i) Right of Free Speech in Ireland.

j) Ban on Mussolini revelations

k) Youth and the Press - misreporting by the Daily Mail.

l) Deletions from news reels. Mr Wickham Steed. Mr A J Cummings.

m) Censorship in St Andrews University.

n) Postcard Censorship in the Isle of Man.

o) Barrow Trading.

p) Stage censorship License

q) Music Censorship.

r) Pavement Chalking Ban.

s) Mr Gandhi's objection to Censorship.

t) Air Display Censorship.

Format:
Archive Item
Extent:
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Repository:
Hull University Archives
Collection:
Records of Liberty (formerly The National Council for Civil Liberties)