Word: coopered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Square-jawed Kent Cooper, executive director of the Associated Press, got madder & madder. For nearly two weeks the A.P. had been waiting for a sizable beat from Bari, Italy: Correspondent Joseph Morton's story of a question & answer interview-by-letter with Yugoslavia's Communist Marshal Josip Broz (Tito). But the story was squashed under the political censorship of 224-lb. General Sir Henry Maitland ("Jumbo") Wilson's Mediterranean command...
Last week Kent Cooper's wrath exploded in several directions...
...sent the sizzling text of a message he had sent to General Wilson himself. It reminded the General of his assurances (when he took over from General "Ike" Eisenhower) that there would be no political censorship, as there had been under his Middle East command. Cabled irate Kent Cooper...
Forbidden Land. Cagily, Kent Cooper sent A.P.'s story on the protest to U.S. editors on a hold-for-release basis, io that they would know the censorship score in case the War Department blocked his kick (which it did not). The A.P.'s story was the heaviest indictment yet of non-security censoring. Many papers gave it column-long play. Among the Cooper counts...
...most part has squirmed silently under increasing censorship pressures, took courage from the stirring of the powerful, slow-to-anger A.P. U.S. newsmen were also heartened last week to hear England's press baron, Lord Rothermere (London Daily Mail, et al.) echo the old cry of Kent Cooper for treaties guaranteeing universal freedom of the press. Declared Viscount Rothermere: "A free press is apparently a greater deterrent to the making of war than anything that can be laid down in peace treaties...