A Selected Bibliography from Foreign Journals

Abstract

The IPI study which appeared on January 16 reported that press censorship was on the rise, even in free countries. On the other hand, the Soviet Union appeared to be easing up on censorship according to the New York Times. Moscow News, a Soviet publication in the English language, resumed publication after six years on January 7. La Prensa reappeared in Buenos Aires on February 3 with a new face—a front page of news instead of the former gray front page of classified ads. The first day 840,000 copies were run off. Other Latin American news was the lifting of press censorship in Brazil by newly-inaugurated President Kubischek, and the worsening heavy-handed suppression of opposition newspapers in Colombia by Dictator Rojas Pinilla. In Hungary, AP correspondent Endre Marton, a Hungarian national, and his wife, a UP correspondent, were sentenced to imprisonment for spying. Mrs. Marton has since been released. History was made in Chinese journalism when Communist Chinese newspapers began printing from left to right, horizontally at the beginning of this year. In Britain, the world-renowned journalist and author, a former editor of The Times, Henry Wickham Steed, died on January 13 at the age of 84.