DEFENCE NEWS
QUESTION OF CENSORSHIP IN U.S.A. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S VIEW. MUST BE ON VOLUNTARY BASIS. I, By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright, (Received This Day, 1.0 p.m.) NEW YORK, April 9. The publication by a section of the I Press of the arrival on Sunday of | the battleship Malaya has caused a sharp discussion on the possibility of a censorship. Today. Mr. Stephen Early, President Roosevelt's Press Secretary, assorted that the Administration’s effort to control defence work’s must be on a voluntary basis. "Wo do not want a censorship.” MT. Early continued. "The newspapers do not want a censorship, the President does not want it. and Mr. Lowell Mellott, Director of the Office of Government Reports, states that ho does not want a censorship." Mr.' Early said a situation similar to that of the publication of the battleship's arrival can be worked out on a voluntary basis once newspapers on the eastern seaboard and press associations have been educated.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 April 1941, Page 6
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156DEFENCE NEWS Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 April 1941, Page 6
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