PRESS CONTROL
OPPOSED VIGOROUSLY IN BRITAIN. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON. July 13. Sir Percy Hurd, will ask the Minister of Information, Mr Duff Cooper, in the House of Commons on Wednesday, whether, in view of suggestions for Government control of the Press, the Government will indicate its appreciation of the restraint .and regard for national security with which the great body of British Press reports have discussed war questions. Sir Percy Hurd suggests that the profession should follow the precedents of the legal, medical and other professions and create its own representative councils of advice and discipline with statutory powers. Increased anxiety has been caused in newspaper circles by Mr Duff Cooper’s disclosure that the compulsory censorship scheme had not been abandoned. He stated that the matter was still under consideration. It had been supposed that Mr Duff Cooper had dropped the scheme, following vigorous Press opposition.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 July 1940, Page 7
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147PRESS CONTROL Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 July 1940, Page 7
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