CROSS-WORD PUZZLES AND POLITICS
A CENSORSHIP IN BUDAPEST. It is reported from Budapest (states the Vienna, correspondent of the London ‘ Observer ') that the Public Prosecutor has introduced a preventive censorship for cross-word puzzles, and demands that all periodicals publishing such puzzles must send the Public Prosecutor the solution of the puzzle in question, together with the copy of the paper. The reasons of the new order aro not quite known. It is said that a Legitimist journal recently published a cross-word puzzle the solution of wdiich was “King Otto for ever.” The puzzles of some otherjournals arc reported to have been connected with obscene jokes.
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Evening Star, Issue 19128, 21 December 1925, Page 2
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105CROSS-WORD PUZZLES AND POLITICS Evening Star, Issue 19128, 21 December 1925, Page 2
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