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PRESSMEN HAMSTRUNG
SYDNEY, July 2
War correspondents in the South Pacific have been gnawing their nails in exasperation as they watched the biggest story in the Pacific develop and were forbidden to write about it. An Australian war correspondent in the area says: "Twenty-five correspondents, many of them risking their lives, have been hamstrung by the determination of certain high officers in the Navy Department in Washington to retain control of the news. "The South Pacific Command's right to issue communiques was withdrawn on 'the eve of the launching of the offensive, and it also was forbidden to initiate news of any kiri"d. , "Any question of security is not involved. It is just that Washington Wants to handle the news itself. The developments will be announced well after the events by the Navy Department communiques. "Then Washington correspondents— not war correspondents in the field who know what is going on—will 'explain' the news to the -public."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 3, 3 July 1943, Page 5
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158STRANGE SITUATION Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 3, 3 July 1943, Page 5
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