1918 U.S. Precedent For British Mail Censorship
(Received 11 a.m.)
NEW YORK, January 29
Explaining the United States mail restrictions announced last Thursday, and the present failure of the Press censorship protest, the Washington correspondent of the “New York Post" reveals that the United States 1918 policy and actions, recorded in Notes to Cuba, were identical with the present British policy. Mr Robert Lansing, then Secre-
tary for State, informed Cuba in
1918 that the United States would
be censoring mails between Mexi-
co and Spain and other coimtries. A further Note on July 15, 1918, declared that, in view of the extensive use of mails for the transmission of merchandise, including money orders and negotiable securities, there was ample ground for inspection by the .belligerents of. mails between the neutrals and Germany or contiguous countries while these countries did Hot act to keep the mails free from contraband.
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Northern Advocate, 30 January 1940, Page 5
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