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...British first set up their wartime censorship apparatus, Lord Macmillan, Chief of the Ministry of Information, told correspondents that the censors had been instructed to delete or kill from their dispatches only information of a military nature. Matters political would not be touched. Last week tall, lanky Claud Cockburn, clever and daring editor of London's famed newsheet The Week, who because of his close Communist associations has pulled many a sensational political news beat, cabled to The Week's U. S. edition, now mimeographed in Manhattan, that the "Herren Censoren," as he called the British copy-passers...
...Week, edited by a tall, personable Oxonian, Claude Cockburn (pronounced koburn), who quit as U. S. correspondent for the London Times because he could not stomach its extreme Rightist policy. Editor Cockburn holds down a regular job with the Daily Worker (under the name of Frank Pitcairn), grinds out all the final copy for The Week in one all-night session, fortified by draughts of red wine. He has 40 regular correspondents, makes frequent , trips to European storm centres, has printed some accurate inside stories of the doings of the Cliveden Set. Many times sued for libel, Editor Cockburn...
...gossip has so rankled ruling British Conservatives as that told about the Cliveden Set (pronounced kliv-den). First to "discover" the Set was The Week, mimeographed newssheet edited by tall, lean Claude Cockburn (pronounced ko-burn), former U. S. correspondent of the London Times, at present a writer for London's Communist Daily Worker...
Many a U. S. and British newsman has since elaborated the original Cockburn details, spreading the story that a group of rich, pro-Fascist Conservatives were meeting and regularly plotting at Cliveden, country estate of Lord & Lady Astor. Among the reported Cliveden coups were the political downfall of Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, the trip of Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax to Berlin, the sending of Lord Runciman to Czechoslovakia, engaging Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh to "spy" on Soviet and German air power, the Munich Pact...
...four-page discussion, long-winded Editor Charles Grey Grey of The Aeroplane reviewed the arguments, appealed to Mrs. Cockburn-Lange to submit the negatives to experts. He answered her reason for secrecy by noting that Sir Philip Sassoon, Under-Secretary for Air, had announced in the House of Commons that "the Air Ministry did not consider any disciplinary action would be called for" by disclosure of the photographer's identity. Arguments summarized by Editor Grey: ¶ No British pilot is known to have made enough patrol flights to account for so many pictures. The 60 perfect pictures were said...