AUSTRALIAN BOOK BANNING LAW
(N.Z Preus —C^-nnfi a htt LONDON, March 13. Discussing the Australian Government’s move to stop the public knowing if a book 'may be banned. “The Times” says to-day: “We are astonished that so virile and sturdy-minded a people as the Australians put up with this kind of nonsense. “They have assailed the Australian censorship pretty vigorously in the past. We hope that will prove to be as nothing to the way they will lambast it now. “The last settler Australia would want to welcome is intolerance.” “The Times” said that the Government move followed the decision not to ban Mr Roger Peyrefitte’s novel “The Keys of St. Peter.” It was found that because a ban had been considered, a huge demand for the book had been created.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28536, 15 March 1958, Page 7
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