David Cornish

“the Spanish press doesn’t have the same censorship that the French, German, and British governments have imposed on their newspapers.” “Correct again, Lilly,” said Noble. “You can add American government censorship of the press, also. As far as I can see, in A.I. Office communications regarding The War, there is no Spanish press censorship at all. There was even wide press coverage in the last week of Spanish King Alphonse XIII and his family’s serious illnesses with the grippe.” “Both the Allies and the Central Powers don’t want to let on there has been any reduction in fighting capacity. So, very little appears in their respective newspapers. The Spanish, however, are free to report all the various details of the influenza epidemic. It would be simple wrong to conclude the epidemic is ‘Spanish’ in origin.”
― David Cornish, 1918 The Great Pandemic

“Noble continued, “The administration’s new Sedition Act permits placement of a citizen in prison for twenty years if he or she ‘utters, prints, writes or publishes any disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language about the government of the United States’. Just a simple criticism could land a citizen in jail for a very long time.”
― David Cornish, 1918 The Great Pandemic