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Fact is there was nothing strange about the correspondents' impressions, and probably a minimum of censor coloration. The potency of the German positions is unquestioned, and official French communiques for the days the newsmen were on tour confirmed the quietness which they reported. Fact also is that this war is no -"phoney," but simply a war far different from any ever fought. At the end of its first 30 days, perspective brought the answers to a lot of questions asked by laymen about World...
...British Fascists feared the same fate had overtaken Sir Oswald Mosley's Action when the first issue after war's outbreak failed to appear. Actually Sir Oswald's proofs were held up by the censor until too late for publication. Last week's Action (cut from 20 pages to eight) was out on time, demanding: "What is the policy of the Government in the present War? At first we were told this was a war to save Poland. Now we are told that it's a war to destroy Hitlerism. In plain language...
Britain's first air-raid scare produced two flatly conflicting stories passed through the censor to the U. S. before the War Office's own propaganda agency (under oldtime Hackwriter Ian Hay) got out the third or "official version" (see p. 15). Foreign correspondents were driven into a frenzy by the slow and clumsy handling of news of the torpedoing of the Athenia; Britain's feat-of-the-week, the bombings of German naval bases, was announced as laconically as the results of target practice; in line with British belief that false hopes should not be raised...
...some 30 other correspondents gathered in the big, cream-walled conference room on the first floor of the Ministry to recite their grievances. Director General Eric Drummond Lord Perth (who later in the week became Advisor on Foreign Publicity and was succeeded by Sir Findlater Stewart) and his Chief Censor. Admiral Cecil Vivian Usborne, heard them patiently, anxious to satisfy the men on whose work depends the U. S. public's opinion of Britain's war. They agreed to appoint more censors, keep them on duty 24 hours a day. Another proposal-that radio broadcasts be delayed until...
...totalitarian Berlin, however, where press restrictions had seemed intolerable in peace time, correspondents were free to cable whatever they pleased. They were bound by a system of responsibility: no censor touched their copy, but if they sent dispatches which the Ministry for Propaganda considered false or damaging they could be denied access to news sources or expelled from the country. The German Army was conducting a few picked reporters on tours of the war area in Poland. Consequently most of the authentic war news that reached the U. S. came from Berlin and told of German victories...