Censureship

It is true that upon this system the judicial censureship which is exercised by the courts of justice over the legislation cannot extend to all laws indistinctly, in as much as some of them can never give rise to that exact species of contestation which is termed a law-suit; [...]

It will readily be understood that by connecting the censureship of the laws with the private interests of members of the community, and by intimately uniting the prosecution of the law with the prosecution of an individual, the legislation is protected from wanton assailants, and from the daily aggressions of party-spirit.

Although the new direction of the censureship towards western dictatorships rivalled the older Swedish censureship directed against the totalitarian powers in the socialist camp, it appears that the established line for the treatment of refugees from the latter countries was still maintained.

Great Britain is the only country in Europe where the press does not at present groan under the heavy shackles of prohibitions and censureships.

They agree that obscenity should not be distributed, but would like to place the onus of censureship on publishers, authors themselves, librarians, or even on the public through a righteous boycott of bad books that happen to reach the market.

The second wave, which fully blossomed by the early 1950s, gained momentum after World War II with the revival of serialism and the disappearance of the censureship of the avant garde.