Word: access
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bona fide military secrets are accepted, and rightly so, in periods of war or crisis, but the army-navy attitude goes beyond this in an unwarranted fashion. Reporters are discouraged from printing unsavory material by the threat of blacklist--being refused access to government releases or press conferences. In this manner a quietus is put on reports of waste and inefficiency in the building of our national defense, so that optimistic generalities prevail. The absurd "voluntary censorship" on the presence of British warships in New York and San Francisco harbors was an attempt to keep ammunition from the isolationists. Coming...
Russian promises, of course, are often superseded by subsequent arrangements, and in Moscow last week another German Ambassador, Count Friedrich Werner von der Schulenburg, may have been discussing an arrangement about Turkey with Russia's new Premier. Access to the Mediterranean Sea is still a preoccupation with all Russian statesmen, and an offer of joint control of the Dardanelles might cause Premier Stalin to forget his promise to Turkey. In the meantime, in Ankara, Franz von Papen already had a jimmy in the doorjamb...
...Near East. "At what line in the southeast Germany would suspend its influence is problematical. . . . Equal access to the oil wells of Iraq and Iran would be an inevitable demand...
From 1930 to 1940 business kept me mostly on the European continent. Having listened to many people in many countries, it became my opinion that there was one important factor to which most of their ills could be traced, namely: Little accurate news and difficult access to that news...
...plea by the sponsors for free and open expression of the points of view of the student body, the teaching staff, and the financial authorities. Emphasis has been placed on the admitted lack of student understanding of the problems involved, but it is felt that undergraduates ought to have access to fuller information and to a larger share in the reaching of decisions "which concern them so directly...