Lecturing to the Fabian Society. Lieut. W. S. Sanders, one of the British Labour delegates to l'etrograd, said tliat in assuming the revolution had brought with it free speech and a free press in Russia we were a little too previous. There was a powerful censorship in Russia— the censorship o£ democracy—and it worked, owing to the newspaper compositors refusing to act up, or afterwards battering out, passages in any speech, however fine, which were not pleasing to ths advanced wing of the party.
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Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 40, 16 August 1917, Page 3
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