PRESS IN WARTIME
IMPORTANCE OF FREE
CRITICISM
LONDON, October 31
. Miss Ellen Wilkinson, M.P., Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Home Security, addressing a conference of the International Federation of Journalists, said that interference with freedom of opinion in wartime should be of the most restricted kind.
,"It is important that the-Press in wartime should be free to criticise within the limits which they themselves regard as just and right and also in the public interest," she said. "The informal partnership between the Press and the Government has been one triumph of the democratic conduct of war."
The Minister of Information, Mr. Bracken, sent a message stating that an independent Press free to comment, criticise, and tell the truth fearlessly was high on the list of the things for which we were fighting.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 107, 2 November 1942, Page 4
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134PRESS IN WARTIME Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 107, 2 November 1942, Page 4
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