Tuesday, August 09, 2005

:::Mo(nu)ments::: ©Ine Dehandschutter: Censored

:::Mo(nu)ments::: ©Ine Dehandschutter: Censored

When Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter George Weller's 25,000-word story on the horror that he encountered in Nagasaki was submitted to military censors, Gen. MacArthur personally ordered the story killed, and the manuscript was never returned. As Weller later summarized his experience with MacArthur's censors, "They won."

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