PRESS FREEDOM
DISCUSSION BY HOME SECRETARY CENSORSHIP ONLY IN TIME . OF WAR. OFFICIAL SECRETS ACT. By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright. LONDON, May 3. The Home Secretary, Sir Samuel Hoare, speaking at the annual dinner of the Newspaper Society, said it seemed essential that the Press should continue in War time, though there must then be a censorship. Dealing with the Official Secrets Act, Sir Samuel Hoare stated he would shortly be moving the second reading in the House of Commons of a Bill which first maintained the need for safeguarding the State against the disclosure of secrets, and secondly restricted use of special powers of interrogation to espionage cases. The Bill should be a permanent safeguard to the Press. He had recently been asked a question in the House of Commons about peace time censorship, which was very tempting, but he was against it because it made the newspapers unreliable, discredited and dull.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 May 1939, Page 7
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152PRESS FREEDOM Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 May 1939, Page 7
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