Censorship
The Butter Battle Book was once removed from the shelves of at least one Canadian public library during the Cold War because of the book's position regarding the arms race.
A National Review article finds it plausible that the rejection of the book stemmed from Seuss' promotion of a theme of "moral equivalence," where the difference between the Soviet Union and the United States was equivalent to a disagreement over the proper side on which to butter bread, presumably in addition to the theme of the arms race and mutually assured destruction. This issue was discussed in a National Review article published on July 27, 1984.
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