LONDON NEWSPAPERS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 58, 23 March 1943, Page 5

LONDON NEWSPAPERS

"JEWISH CONTROL*' TALE "One of the legends disseminated by Mr John Amcry through the Berlin wireless, to which lie now has access, is that there is not, onia single paper in London that is not Jewish controlled. "The assertion from such a source is not. worth noticing, but too many people not in Berlin but in Britain are constantly saying the same thing," says a writer in the London Spectator. "To run through the list of. all the papers of one kind and another published in London would be a formidable business, but as far as the daily papers are. concerned— The Times, the Telegraph, the Express, the Mail, the News Chronicle, the Herald—l know of no single one that is under any sort of Jewish control!. The nearest, to it is in the case of the Daily Herald which is owned as to 51 per cent by Odliams Press, of which board Lord Southwood (formerly Mr J. S. Ivlias) is chairman; but this is in fact not relevant, for it is expressly laid down that on the. policy side the governing agents shall be the Labour Party and the Trade Union Congress. "There is no reason why Jews should not. be as prominent in journalism as they are in many other professions, but it so happens that at the moment they are not.''