LETTER REJECTED.
PAPER TAKEN TO TASK. LONDON, July 17. Mr Alfred G. Gardiner, formerly editor of the Daily News, and a leading Liberal journalist, sent a letter to the Times dealing with the refusal of the Times to publish a letter in which nine leading Liberals advocated the inclusion in the Cabinet of Mr Winston Churchill. The Times rejected Mr Gardiner’s letter, which has r.ow been published bv the News-Chronicle and the Manchester Guardian. The letter protests against editorial censorship, in a forum 1 so traditionally impartial as the correspondence columns of the Times. The letter from the nine Liberals, besides advocating Mr Churchill's inclusion in the Cabinet, replied to a letter from Mr J. A. Spender that criticised Sir Archibald Sinclair, Leader of the Opposition Liberals in the House of Commons, for attacking Mr Chamberlain. After the Times had rejected the nine Liberals’ letters, it was published by the Daily Telegraph and other London papers, with a footnote stating that the Times had rejected it. The Times then printed the letter, hut omitted the. paragraph advocating Mr Churchill’s inclusion in the Cabinet.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 205, 31 July 1939, Page 12
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183LETTER REJECTED. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 205, 31 July 1939, Page 12
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