SUPPRESSION OF NEWS
London Complaints Of Press Censorship
LONDON, May 8.
Mr. Aneurin Bevan, M.P., presiding at a meeting representative of all 'sections of tho newspaper industry, held under the auspices of the National Council of Civil Liberties, said that fresh interference with the liberties of the Press might occur next week if information he had received was correct.
The meeting adopted a resolution protesting against interference with the free publication of news and opinions, and declaring that use was being made of Regulation 2 (d) which Parliament never intended.
Mr. Bevan said that the Government must be convinced that it. was not necessary for it to fight the British people; it had enough to do in fighting the enemy. Mr. E. C. Castle, night news editor of the “Daily Mirror,” declared that GO per cent, of his work and that of his colleagues was being suppressed. “There is a deliberate, definite, and damnable censorship of opinion going on,” he declared. s>
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 190, 11 May 1942, Page 5
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162SUPPRESSION OF NEWS Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 190, 11 May 1942, Page 5
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