CENSORSHIP IN RUMANIA

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24912, 27 June 1946, Page 5

CENSORSHIP IN RUMANIA

FAILURE TO PUBLISH BRITISH NOTE

LONDON, June 25. “It is understood that the Rumanian censorship has issued a directive to the newspapers that any newspaper publishing the British Note of June 15 will be liable to suppression,” says the diplomatic correspondent of the Press Association. “Soon after Britain began the ‘ recent exchange of Notes with Rumania, an undertaking was given on behalf of the Rumanian Government that there would be no suppression of Allied communications by Rumanian newspapers. There is surprise in London that the British Note of June 15 has not yet been published.”

The British Note delivered to Bucharest on June 15 said that Rumania’s reply to the earlier British request for implementation of the assurances given after the Moscow Conference “not only contains inaccuracies, but gives a completely inadequate and distorted picture of conditions 'as they exist to-day.” The British Note added that the British Government had examined carefully the various considerations adduced by Rumania, but regarded the reply as wholly unsatisfactory, and it “accordingly hopes that the Rumanian Government will see fit to take Immediate effective steps to implement its previous assurances.” The British Note again drew attention to Rumania’s failure to set a date for its elections. It acknowledged assurances that the Rumanian newspapers in future would not delay publication of Allied declarations.

EDITOR REFUSES TO PUBLISH

BULGARIAN OPPOSITION PAPER . SOFIA, June 25. The editor of Bulgaria’s only remaining Opposition newspaper, “Svobodennarod,” has refused to publish his paper until the Government tells him why last Sunday’s issue was confiscated. The Prime Minister (Mr Georgiev) has declined to see the editor, declaring that thefe is nothing to prevent the paper from publishing the official statement on the confiscation of the issue which the paper promised.