CENSORSHIP ENDED

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 57, 5 September 1945, Page 7

CENSORSHIP ENDED

THE BRITISH SYSTEM

DEPARTMENT NOW DESERTED

(Special P.A. Correspondent.) Rec. 10 a.m. LONDON, Sept. 4. The Press censorship has ended in Great Britain, exactly six years after it began, and today the Press Censorship Department of the Ministry of Information is deserted. During the war hundreds of censors dealt with 665,560 submission's, involving 183.000,000 words. The censorship of Press dispatches from Field-Marshal Montgomery's headquarters is continuing, possibly because no directive has been issued by the War Office. It is suggested that an effort is being made to retain, at least temporarily, some control of the news from Germany. Admiral G. P. Thomson, chief censor at the Ministry, who will remain there for the time being, paid a tribute to the work of the censors in preserving secrets of the Services essential to the success of the war. Yet the good relationship between the censors and the Press was never destroyed, he said. Coinciding with the removal of the censorship waj a warning by Mr. Harold Ffoulkes in his presidential address to the Institute of Journalists that pqliticans in future might try to keep information from the Press. "The passion for secrecy and for the cloaking of affairs affecting the common weal," said Mr. Ffoulkes, "is not wholly a legacy of wax-. Anybody whose calling has brought him intimately into touch