"MERE YES-MEN"
CORRESPONDENTS IN. MOSCOW Rec. 1.45 p.m. LONDON, May 24. The; Russians' political censorship v/as so stringent that it resulted in an almost total eclipse of independent reporting, reducing correspondents in Moscow to mere yes-men, said Mr. Paul Winterton, former Moscow correspondent for the "News Chronicle", and the 8.8.C., interviewed by the World Press News. Mr. Winterton said: "Broadly speaking, it has been impossible for any foreign correspondent in Moscow to say a single word during the past three years which implied the slightest criticism of anything Russian." He added that the Russian authorities frequently promised regular Press conferences, but nothing ever came of it. The only contact foreign correspondents had was with the Press Department of the Foreign Office, "an utterly .incompetent, uninterested, and frequently obstructive department."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 122, 25 May 1945, Page 6
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