BRITISH NEWSPAPERS.
(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Sept. 20. The assistant manager of the Times, Mr F. P. Bishop, in a broadcast description of the production of a newspaper under the conditions created by the German air force’s terrorist night bombing of London, after explaining the ways in which the public had been assured of receiving its morning papers—if sometimes a little late—said:
“Newspapers are small just now, as well as late, but after all these are comparatively minor disadvantages. What the reader gets for his penny or twopence is still something that no German or Italian could buy at any price—an independent paper free to give real news to the best of its ability arid free to comment on news to the best of its judgment. ’ “Hitler -would like to destroy Britain’s free Press. Wo are determined that Hitler will not succeed in preventing us from publishing in London. I think we can promise that he will not. After the experience of the past fortnight we know that the spirit of the people in the newspaper industry is quite unshaken and unshakeable, and equal to any trials the war-- may bring.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 253, 23 September 1940, Page 8
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