KEEPING IT DARK.

New Zealand Tablet, 13 November 1919, Page 30

KEEPING IT DARK.

Tho Manchester Guardian, pointing out that the censorship is maintained in Ireland, and that telegraphic messages to English newspapers also are subjected to it, asks in whoso interest and for what purpose is this done? "Not only," it says, "is public opinion here entitled to be enlightened about the true condition of Ireland, but unless it is it cannot form a trustworthy judgment of the problem which it has to face and how to solve it. Here, as always, full and accurate information, is the foundation of wise policy. Ought Irish events, then, to be kept from the Irish themselves lest disaffection should spread with the knowledge that it exists? But' what, on the one hand, can better spread resentment and, on the other, exaggerate tho existing evil, than the widespread knowledge that the Irish Government suppresses news, presumably because it dare not publish it?" " • ■