Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 12, 1973, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press thursday july 12, 1973 censors Busy with Blue Pencil in Portugal by Francis Hope Lisbon special owns they never change things in Portugal m y portuguese friends agreed but they Are very Good at changing the the secret police Tor exam ple used to lit called the Hue now they Are the dus. The overseas possessions Angola Mozambique Guinea have been both colonies and now they Are the governing party has operated under a number of labels before its present one National popular action and uie censorship which plagues the lives of any one who puts pen to paper was abolished with a blast of Trum pets in 3971 to be replaced by something called preliminary which still looks remarkably like censorship. Itie visitor to any Lisbon newspaper will find the usual i Lurry of activity but not quite for Tho usual reasons. The men with Galley proofs in their hands or reaching desperately for the nearest Tele phone Are not just checking their facts or polishing their prose. They Urc re ving their paper to meet the demands of the preliminary at 125 Una do la Misfricordia which is also the office of i h e government newspaper the retired army officers who administer the censorship sit with their Blue pencils at the ready. An article of one thou Sand words May come Back with As Many As 16 cuts. In one edition of a weekly Maga Zine the cuts included items in the readers letters and even in the crossword Puzzle. About a Quarter of my the Edi Tor told me is spent directly or indirectly in coping with the in another newspaper office the renter tape machine spits out its regular quota of information. Then the messages from uie censorship begin to arrive. Item 30 the Ameri can Senate Lias voted against renewing the defence agree ment with Portugal on uie azores lot ally prohibited. Hem 32 a speech from the president of Peru containing some routine anti colonial sentiments the last paragraph prohibited. The journalists May know such tilings. The people of whom some 40 per cent cannot read May not. A statue of our lady of Fatima looks Down serenely from the third floor offices where the censors decide what shall spread beyond the word of Mouth reports of uie Lisbon Liberal elite. Sho is about the Only Serene person connected with their decisions. I made an appointment with one Lisbon journalist who did not show up next Day he Tele phoned to apologize i was with the censor until Siree in the 1 checked and it was no polite apers miss the train and very office keeps a nostalgic notebook in which they Aste up the paper As it would ave been before the cuts. Under the new press Law n y b o d y connected wit i a lows paper from Uio editor o lie Printer s Devil can be punished for defying uie Ceil worship. 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Make things in the world of theatre films and literature the position is much uie same although Here Sicre is a clerical As Well As a military Side to the operation. Novels Are supposed to be submitted to preliminary examination if Mieir subject matter is political economic or so since it is difficult to imagine a novel with no social reference at All the formula is hard to get round. Some pub Lishers simply defy it at their work on a translation of Anth ony i Jurgess s a clockwork Orange was told that in View of the film Hie Book was unlikely to appear. He pushed on most portuguese film makers have chosen to abroad in search of Freedom As Well As financial backing. Portuguese culture in Gener Al is a Julile reproduction of the n u n p o 1 i t i c a 1 Side of French French papers fire own risk one portuguese author available except when they carry articles on Portugal or portuguese Africa. 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