ROSY CENSORSHIP
CRITICISED BY SENATOR LODGE Recd. 6 p.m. Pearl Harbour, Sept. 29. Senator Lodge, after a visit to the war fronts, said he will report to Congress that our news censorship as he saw it at the front enrages and disillusions our fighting men in the truthfulness of their leaders. Senator Lodge told the Associated Press correspondent: “I don't know whom our rosy censorship helps unless it is the enemy by making us underestimate him. I saw a United States solder befriend Italian and German prisoners, but such comarauerre r.ce_ not exist in the pacific, where we fight the Japanese to a finish. The Japanese made it that way by torturing prisoners, shooting down parachutists, executing the Doolittle fliers cold bloodedly. Our litter bearers are their fvourite target. These truths should be driven home."
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 232, 1 October 1943, Page 5
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