MAIL CENSORSHIP

Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 February 1940, Page 5

MAIL CENSORSHIP

PAN=AMERICAN AIRWAYS DECISION

CRITICISED IN NEW YORK. HELPING HITLER AGAINST ALLIES. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. NEW YORK, February 27. The New York ‘’Herald-Tribune” in a leading article headed “Pan-Ameri-can Airways Skips Bermuda,” says: “There was always something a little funny about the mail controversy. Now Pan-American Airways helps the State Department to extricate itself. Mails will no longer be censored at. Bermuda, and there is nothing Britain can do about it. “But this solution, at the cost of putting the United States in the position of furnishing Hitler with a free pipeline for the importation of mone?> and securities, which may be most valuable to him. does not really clarify our attitude to the blockade problem. The United States has resigned all neutral rights which Germany might wish to infringe, but it maintains those which might embarrass the Allies, who will do nothing serious in reply. “If the United States in effect authorises Germany to wage economic warfare with mines and torpedoes, it seems we ought similarly to authorise the Allies to wage the counter economic war with the blockade censorship, diversion of ships, etc.”