CENSORSHIP QUERY
HORE BELISHA’S VIEWS HELP FOR FINLAND (Reed. Feb. 20, 9 a.m.) LONDON, Feb. 19. Lieutenant-Commander R. T. H. Fletcher (Lab., Nuneaton) and Mr. Geoffrey Le M. Mander (Lib., Wolverhampton) are raising in Parliament the question of censoring an article contributed by the former Secretary of State for War, Mr. L. Hore-Belisha, to the News of the World published at the week-end, in which at two points appealing for immediate and substantial armed support for Finland were the insertions:
(Here 24 lines are omitted), (here 20 lines are omitted).
This is the first time an English newspaper has indicated the censor’s deletions.
Commander Fletcher says that the question at issue is whether the article was censored because it contained facts valuable to the enemy or contrary to the policy of the Government. If Mr. Hore-Belisha’s article had been censored because his views were inconvenient, the country was confronted with the first principles of totalitarianism.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20176, 20 February 1940, Page 7
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