PRESS CONTROL

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 15, Issue 75, 28 July 1950, Page 4

PRESS CONTROL

Sir, —When Mr Robert M. Scotten, American Ambassador, addressed a meeting of the English Speaking Union (Wellington 8/6/50) he laid stress on the Press: I take it there is a very great danger in the Press! It is a natural contingency that while Britain is being controlled by Wall Street, that there should be reason for her “British”.journalists to squeal; and this being the case, it is equally so with the American Press to retaliate; being also controlled by Wall Street. So it is the dollar that controls, and when some honest politician speaks his mind, Manhattan rises in arms and the Wires start to work to keep the American people with their eyes closed as to their own Socialist administrators, while they belabour the British people. The people of the British Commonwealth are awake to things; that the ordinary

citizen of the U.S.A. are only just coming out of their slumbers! When this happens there will be a united front to control their Manhattan administrators who control the international press via Pitt St. Cum Wall St. .Note! There is the same invictive propaganda of the controlled press throughout the British Commonwealth! We must not allow the soft peddle to blind us, as .to who are the dictators of the Government. Yours etc., W. BRADSHAW. Whakatane, July 20.