Abstract

In the Driftway

With some of the vagaries of the censorship the readers of the "Nation" are now familiar. The other day the Associated Press reported the suppression in Paris of one issue of "Le Fopulaire," the new radical Socialist daily, "at the request of General Pershing"-for what reason no one yet knows. Almost simultaneously came the news, via Sweden and Switzerland, of the beginning of criminal proceedings against the Swedish newspaper "Aften Bladet," at the request of the American Minister to Sweden. The censor even deleted the other day the name of an army corps which apparently General Pershing himself desired printed in recognition of its admirable services. Only occasionally does the name of a general crop out in the news. This seems to be altogether absurd.