BAN ON NEWS

Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 41, 18 February 1944, Page 5

BAN ON NEWS

Manipulation Of Censorship By British Officials

REFORM STRONGLY URGED

LONDON, Feb. 15. The Sunday Express, in leading article, protests against m^nipu L, &SSS? C X° rS SSn by n°aSll democratic country,"it states, "the only purpose ship should be to prevent of information which may endanger the security of the country but censorship is in force it has a ro ,indency, even in a democratic try, to move from suppression of facts on security grounds to sup pression of critical opinion. "So we come to the stage in officials try to use censorship for their own protection. Any opposed to their predilections is suppressed, and any does not suit them is held u P- j "Nearlv every divisional general in the field complains that the censorship is unnecessarily stnnge suppressing news of what his me have done. Stories of. what locai regiments did in Tunisia ar & now being released, and hiy word has been said about the m g ficent divisions fighting in 1 h "Admiral Thomson, head of Bntisn Censorship, has carried out a difficult task with tact, discretion and rea^ understanding. P en , S j JLtricted be left to him. It.should be:restnctea wholly to security, and mysteriou figures who hover in *ke t ground, and who wish to manipulate censorship for other P" § „ ' should have their claws clippe .