TOO MUCH SECRECY ?

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 153, 30 June 1944, Page 6

TOO MUCH SECRECY ?

QUESTION IN COMMONS

LONDON, June 29,

' "The flying bomb is more than a nuisance, and it must be dealt with by all practical means as sbon as possible," said Lord Strabolgi in a speech today. "The liberation of France and the Low Countries, therefore, is all the more urgent."

Asked in the House of Commons today by, Mr. Longhurst whether the * Government was in a position to re-, lax the censorship on the localities mainly affected by flying bombs, the Parliamentary Secretary' to the Ministry" of Information, Mr. E. ,Thurtle, replied that the Minister was satisfied that there was' at present good reason on security grounds for maintaining the existing rule. ■ - Mr. Longhurst: Is Mr. l Bracken aware that the public morale is being much lowered not., by the bombs but by the secrecy prevailing about them? The public is by no means satisfied because. of this secrecy that the arTangements are' adequate for the time the Germans promise us may be coming shortly. . ■ Mr. Thurtle: There are most valid reasons for maintaining the, rule. PUBLICATION OF CASUALTIES Eec. noon. ' : RUGBY, June 29. The Home Secretary, Mr. Morrison, was asked in the^ House of Commons whether, to counter enemy propaganda, he would give weekly the total casualties caused by, flying-bombs since this indiscriminate form of bombing started: Mr. Morrison replied that he had to take into account whether the publication of figures would help the enemy. He would give careful consideration | to the question.—B:O.W.