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Rebound in the South. On the Crimean peninsula, both sides agreed that the Germans had strongly counterattacked at points southeast of Simferopol. New York Timesman Daniel T. Brigham, covering the Russian war from censor-free Switzerland, declared: "The mere fact that the Germans in that sector are in a position to counterattack at all is taken to indicate that their situation in Simferopol cannot be considered as desperate as it was first thought to be. . . ." Capping the week was a German High Command claim of recapture of Feodosiya, on the Black Sea coast, one of the first Crimean points reclaimed...
...meaning of this crackdown was both less and more serious than at first appeared. Cecil Brown was still permitted to file cables-in which, at the censor's discretion, he could still say about what he pleased aside from military matters...
When censorship begins to operate in the interests of morale, usually it soon operates in the interests of no one but the censor...
Meanwhile, new Censor Byron Price, squeezed into offices in the Post Office Building, was hampered in his efforts to set up a smooth-functioning censorship machinery by a deluge of newsmen's questions that made him the most consulted man in Washington. He did get two assistants to help him: to assist in radio censorship, 56-year-old, Ohio-born John H. Ryan, vice president and general manager of a Midwest radio chain; to assist with press censorship, 45-year-old, Arkansas-born John H. Sorrells, Scripps-Howard executive editor (since...
...much censorship the public will stand for still remains to be seen. As for the censor himself, Byron Price indicates he would be reasonable and as former chief of one of the world's biggest staffs of foreign correspondents he ought to have considerable understanding of the curse of strict and inept censorship...