CENSORSHIP OF NEWS
BRITISH SYSTEM’S DEFECTS
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LONDON. August 19.
“The Times” says that the Germans clearly put out picturesque lies over the week-end in order mainly to influence Japan and Spain. The German description of “widespread havoc” in London was briefly successful in America, but this was a result more of British censorship delays than to German inventiveness. If American correspondents in London had been able to cable reports immediately, American readers would at least have had the truth from London simultaneously with the falsehoods from Berlin. The Germans believe that their falsehoods during the Norwegian campaign helped to swing Italy to war, and they hope for similar although smaller results in Japan and Spain through falsehoods about a British lack of resistance now.
The “Daily Telegraph” learns that the delay in transmitting the British version of the German attacks on August 16 to America was caused by a nine-hour hold-up of information by the Air Ministry in conjunction with the Ministry of Home Security. The hold-up resulted in American evening newspapers going to press with the distorted German version of the attacks against London suburbs.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 20 August 1940, Page 7
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