STORY CENSORED.
REASON ASKED. Newspaper Article By Late Secretary For War. COMMONS CONCERNED. United Press Association. —Coiijvifjht. (Received 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, February 19. Mr. R. T. H. Fletcher (Lab., Nuneaton) and Mr. G. Mander (Lib., Wolverhampton) are raising in Parliament the question of the censoring of an article by Mr. Leslie HoreBelisha, former War Minister, in the "News of the World" of last Sunday in which, at two points where he was appealing for immediate and substantial armed support for Finland, were insertions (here 24 lines omitted; here 20 lines omitted). This is the first time an English newspaper has indicated the censor's deletions. Mr. Fletcher says the question at issue is whether the article was censored because it contained facts valuable to tho enemy or contrary to the policy of tho Government. "If Mr. Hore-Belisha was censored because his views were inconvenient, we were confronted with the first principles of totalitarianism," he contends.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 43, 20 February 1940, Page 8
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