BAD WAR NEWS
Should it be Kept Back ? AMERICAN SAYS NOT. [Aust. & N.Z. Cable Assn.] (Rec. 9.10.) MONTREAL, Oct, 19. Mr Elmer Davis here, said that: in-ter-Allied economic co-operation during the war had been Droving so; valuable that, in the merest common selfinterest. it probablv would be continued, irt some form, after the war. He Braised Canada for the candour and commonsense with which the severe Canadian losses at Dieppe were announced. Mr Davis said: “We all recognise that information which would aid the enemy and which is not already known to him must be withheld. But, in neither nation do we admit the pernicious doctrine that bad news should, be withheld because it might discourage thp people, or that such news should be saved ud till it can be balanced with good news. A free people wants to know, and it has the right to Jcnow, how the battles are going, and such a people will fight all the harder if it realises how hard it must fight for victory.
called tenders for the sale jy£ a substantial portion of such gear, the total of which is set down in a statement of the Company’s assets at approximately £40,000.
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Grey River Argus, 21 October 1942, Page 5
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