A survey of the difficulties with censorship faced by the college press across the nation. Dangers of Censorship. R9 The Bishop of Johannesburg, South Africa, believes that censorship of literature, the press, and broadcasting by the state cuts at the roots of the moral life because it destroys one of the essential foundations of all morality, namely, the respect for truth. Under censorship truth becomes something laid down by the authority. When freedom of expression goes, a loss of the meaning of truth follows, and book burning is not far away.
References are to South Africa.
R10 Reichardt, Jasia. The occasion is police action against works of Jim Dine in a London exhibition. References are also made to contemporary exhibitions of Aubry Beardsley, Stass Paraskos, Hermann Nitsch, and, historically, to Ruskin's burning of the Turner nudes and the 1929 confiscation of D. H. Lawrence paintings. Through Flexible Standards of Obscenity. R12 Rhode Island.