MICKEY THE MOUSE AND POLITICS
This story of the expulsion of»Reuter’s correspondent at Belgrade, Mr H. D. Harrison, from Yugoslavia, on the ground that he transmitted to foreign countries a statement that a Mickey • Mouse comic strip in a Belgrade paper had been banned because it bore on national! politics, is a sinister commentary on the methods of totalitarian States. The statement appears to have been true. Mr Harrison’s duty was to report it; he would have been failing in his duty if he had not reported it. What action, Reuter’s intend to take I have not inquired. It can no more replace its correspondent than ‘ The Times ’ replaced Mr Ebbutt when he was expelled from Germany. It is a temptation to suggest that British newspapers as a whole should reply by excluding all news of Yugoslavia from, their columns, but that is a policy that would need to be considered from several angles.—“ Janus,- in tha ‘ Spectator.’
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Evening Star, Issue 22881, 12 February 1938, Page 3
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158MICKEY THE MOUSE AND POLITICS Evening Star, Issue 22881, 12 February 1938, Page 3
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