BRITAIN’S NEED.
DISSERVICE BY CENSORSHIP.
AMERICAN JOURNALIST’S VIEWS
(Received This Day, 1.10 p.m.)
NEW/ YORK, November 24
“The censorship has harmed Britain’s cause more than a whole night’s bombing by the Germans,” declares the London correspondent of the “New York Times.”
“Even the British newspapers are printing the German communiques in order to tell their readers what is going on at home. It is “Alice in Wonderland” journalism, whereby the censoi’s have succeeded in fooling their best friends. They want from the United States war materials,-which they can get only by informing the United States of the extremity of such need, yet every American correspondent causes the censor to rear up' on his hind legs when he suggests that everything is not ‘hunkydory.’ The fact remains that everything is not ‘hunkydory,’ because Britain’s need of help is greater than ever..’’
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 39, 26 November 1940, Page 5
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140BRITAIN’S NEED. Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 39, 26 November 1940, Page 5
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