TRUTH SLOWER THAN FICTION

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 4 August 1941, Page 2

TRUTH SLOWER THAN FICTION

“l he enemy gets certain advantages \ from not worrying whether he tells the j triffh or not. His method is quicker than ouis If he wants to tell the truth we nave got to find it out first,” said Sir Walter Monckton. director-general of ihe British Ministry of Information. I in a recent address. “When the fight- I ing is .* long way off and confused, the i truth takes time to discover. Finding out thi truth is a slow business. If you are prepared to fill in gaps by in- j veutinn, you can save a lot of time, i But you save it at some cost. And I am quite sure of one thing, that we j must stick to our rule of trying to find j out and tell the truth and nothing but j th“ truth It is because we try to do J this that people listen to our news: and rely on it not only in British and j Allied countries, but in neutral conn- 1 trie-, in enemy-occupied territories and even in Germany and in Italy them- j selves. If it be said that we are not j always first with the news. I say that i depends on what you mean by the new- We are first with what can be rel'ed upon as the truth.”