BAN IMPOSED
RUSSIAN-AUTHORISED NEWSPAPERS CIRCULATION IN AMERICAN ZONE Rec. 0.15 a.m. LONDON, May 20. The Berlin correspondent of The Times reports that the circulation of all Russian-authorised newspapers and periodicals fcas been banned in the American zone until the Soviet Military Administration permits the unrestricted circulation in its zone of publications authorised by the United States Military Government. Colonel Gordon Dexter, director of the American Information Control Division, said the ban was not retaliatory, but that it had been taken in the hope of inducing the Russians to comply with an Allied Control Council directive which they had signed and which provided for the free flow of publications between zones. Papers from the American zone had been seized in the Russian zone and he had written 13 protests without receiving one acknowledgment.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26777, 21 May 1948, Page 5
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132BAN IMPOSED Otago Daily Times, Issue 26777, 21 May 1948, Page 5
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