SOVIET PRESS CENSORSHIP
ASSOGIATED PRESS PRGTESTS' Received Thursday 9.30 p.m. BUDA'PEBT, March 7. The Associaced Press yesterday filed a protest v/ith Major-Ceneral Key, the American member of the Alked Contro! Joimnission, against the Sut-.sian cemor;hip of outgoing Prer.s despatches. The protest asserted that the Russian censor at the Budapest Post Office had been vithholding for 15 days at despatch quoting American sources as saying hgt American eil properties in Hunjary had suff'eied £6,250.000,000 damage as a resulfc of Fu.' han onerations The story was beld for 12 days hefore the Associatod Press knew it had not been espatched. The protest also claims that the Rus"ian ccmoi deV.ted yrts of at je&et ,wo despatches regarding "the complete Russian economic and political control of Hungary",' and respohsibilityifor the delay ir Cardinal Mindzenfcy's departure for Rome.
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Chronicle (Levin), 8 March 1946, Page 5
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