NEWS FROM INDIA
TO THE EDITOB OP THE PRESS. Sir, —In justice to the New Zealand Press and the British policy, some comment should be made on the remarks you reported the other day by Dr. A. Bramwell Cook, of India. Dr. Cook says the lack of Indian news in our newspapers is shameful and “somebody must be blocking it.” It is a pity that Dr. Cook should encourage those persons who so often see sinister reasons for what appears or does not appear in newspapers. It is not correct to say we are not getting news from India. In the last few weeks I have read in New Zealand newspapers dozens of cabled messages about the constitutional crisis in India, and I have listened to the 8.8. C. giving summaries of what has happened. I heard one only a few days ago. Britain has thus given, over her official broadcasting service, news unfavourable to her own cause. The reason why we are not getting more news from India is quite simple. It is possible nothing decisive has happened. Our newspapers can receive only a limited amount of news each day. Cabled news costs money, and newspapers .are being pretty hard hit by economic conditions. We are fighting for our lives, and news of the war naturally takes precedence. Developments in India are very important, but they are less important than what is happening in Europe.—Yours, etc., EX-JOURNALIST. December 15, 1939.
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Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22895, 16 December 1939, Page 7
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