Search, stage: silence, 1900 to 1949

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18 incidents match this view.

Date	Incident	Country	Tactic	Head of government	Outcome
1948	Israel retains a British-era law giving the military the power to review and restrict the press	Israel (RSF 2026 rank: 116th of 180)	Prior restraint	David Ben-Gurion	Ongoing (1 January 1989)
16 April 1944	Australia's wartime government seizes a Sydney newspaper edition under press controls rules	Australia (RSF 2026 rank: 33rd of 180)	Prior restraint	John Curtin	Reversed (18 April 1944)
8 May 1941	Greece: collaborationist government creates a Directorate-General for Press and Radio to review films and publications before release	Greece (RSF rank: not recorded)	Prior restraint	Georgios Tsolakoglou	Sustained
3 September 1939	Canada: War Measures Act regulations authorize review of hundreds of newspapers and ban political organizations	Canada (RSF 2026 rank: 20th of 180)	Prior restraint	William Lyon Mackenzie King	Sustained (31 December 1945)
1939	Brazil's Vargas government creates a state messaging department with broad press powers	Brazil (RSF 2026 rank: 52nd of 180)	Licensing and closure of outlets	Getúlio Vargas	Reversed (1 January 1945)
April 1938	Franco's Spain requires state permission to be a journalist under a wartime Press Law	Spain (RSF 2026 rank: 29th of 180)	Credential control	Francisco Franco	Reversed (1 April 1977)
28 March 1938	United States: Supreme Court strikes down a Georgia city's permit requirement for distributing literature, 1938	United States (RSF 2026 rank: 64th of 180)	Prior restraint	Eurith D. Rivers	Reversed (28 March 1938)
July 1937	Japan: government requires clearance to publish war news under the Newspaper Law, 1937	Japan (RSF rank: not recorded)	Prior restraint	Fumimaro Konoe	Sustained
4 October 1933	Nazi Germany's Editors Law bars Jewish journalists, 1933	Germany (RSF 2026 rank: 14th of 180)	Credential control	Adolf Hitler	Reversed (8 May 1945)
28 February 1933	Germany: Reichstag Fire Decree suspends freedom of the press, February 1933	Germany (RSF 2026 rank: 14th of 180)	Licensing and closure of outlets	Adolf Hitler	Sustained (1 May 1945)
1933	Portugal's Salazar government formally establishes press controls under a new constitution	Portugal (RSF 2026 rank: 10th of 180)	Prior restraint	António de Oliveira Salazar	Reversed (25 April 1974)
1927	Minnesota closes The Saturday Press in 1927; the Supreme Court strikes down the law in 1931	United States (RSF 2026 rank: 64th of 180)	Prior restraint	Theodore Christianson	Reversed (1 June 1931)
1926	Dutch East Indies: Colonial authorities end publication of the communist newspaper Mawa under Penal Code Article 153 bis, 1926	Indonesia (RSF rank: not recorded)	Licensing and closure of outlets	Andries Cornelis Dirk de Graeff	Sustained (1 January 1926)
1922	Glavlit created: Soviet censorship office, 1922	Russia (RSF 2026 rank: 172nd of 180)	Prior restraint	Vladimir Lenin	Ongoing (1 January 1989)
July 1917	United States postmaster bars the magazine The Masses from the mail under the Espionage Act	United States (RSF 2026 rank: 64th of 180)	Secrets and espionage laws	Woodrow Wilson	Upheld by a court (1 November 1917)
1917	United States Postmaster General Burleson strips the Milwaukee Leader of its mailing rate	United States (RSF 2026 rank: 64th of 180)	Shutdowns and blocking	Woodrow Wilson	Upheld by a court (7 March 1921)
27 August 1914	Britain's Official Press Bureau controls newspaper coverage of the First World War	United Kingdom (RSF 2026 rank: 18th of 180)	Prior restraint	Herbert Henry Asquith	Sustained (12 November 1914)
9 March 1913	Ottoman Empire bars lawmakers and officials from editing newspapers and jails a leading editor	Türkiye (RSF 2026 rank: 163rd of 180)	Licensing and closure of outlets	Mehmed V	Sustained (9 March 1913)

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