OFFICIAL SECRETS
AMERICAN BILL IS PASSED
■MEASURE TO STOP PUBLICATION
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)
WASHINGTON, April 3
Acting under a rule for limiting debate, the United State s Houee by an overwhelming majority, to-day passed a Bui'designed to prevent the publication of' State Department secrets. This measure, which is one of the most drastic proposals ever advanced in peace time, has been prepared by the Department of Justice, at the r equest of the State Department.
It provides for a punishment up to ten years’ imprisonment and' a ten thousand dollars fine for the publication, s ale, or other utilisation of any official record, document, etc., “prepared in any official code by employees of the Government o r other persons.”
It is understood that the measure is the outgrowth of the attempted publication, recently, of a book of memoirs setting forth tlm alleged interception by the American Secret Service of messages of the Japanese delegation at the. Washington naval conference.
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Hokitika Guardian, 5 April 1933, Page 5
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