BRITISH CENSORSHIP
MR. PRIESTLEY’S VIEWS
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LONDON, December 16. Mr. J. B. Priestley, the novelist and playwright, broadcasting to the United States, declared that the British censorship was a mixture of timid officialism and faulty co-ordination. There were also service prejudice against publicity and a general lack of understanding of the value of public opinion and of prestige and morale. “I would not be the Ministerfor Information unless I was empowered to release all the news and information I please. I would consult, experts, but the decision to release the news or not would be mine except for a direct veto frdm the Prime Minister.” 1 Mr. Priestley complained that the British people* were kept too much in the dark.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 17 December 1940, Page 8
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