PRESS CENSORSHIP
BRITISH GOVERNMENT WARNED [U.P.A.-By Electric Telegraph-Copyright) LONDON, 30th November. The noted journalist and author, Mr J. A. Spender, in a speech at the Institute of Journalists’ annual meeting warned the Government of the danger of excessive and cautious newspaper censorship. He added: “If such caution allows the enemy to obtain a long start with false news, the censors may cause a serious military disadvantage. We may be forced to ask the censors to realise that the Press is not a tiresome survival of peace which should be effaced in wartime but a potent military weapon.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 2 December 1940, Page 5
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97PRESS CENSORSHIP Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 2 December 1940, Page 5
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