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...House, Home Secretary Herbert Morrison accused London's rambunctious Mirror of publishing "scurrilous misrepresentations, distorted and exaggerated statements and irresponsible generalizations . . . tending to undermine the Army and depress the whole population. . . ." Hitherto Britain's censorship has been confined to the suppression of information that might be of value to the enemy. But there is a section of the Defense Regulations (passed in the summer of 1940, when Britain was in imminent danger of invasion) permitting the Government to suppress a paper that undermines the war effort. The Home Secretary talked of suppressing the Mirror...
...British Army had done since Major General Sir Charles Townshend capitulated at Kut-el-Amara in Mesopotamia in 1916, and, before that, since Cornwallis gave up at Yorktown in 1781. He had a matter of minutes in which to decide whether to shake Winston Churchill's Cabinet, to depress all of Britain, to undermine the Allies' faith in British fighting...
...given place to the view that if the pupils don't like it, they shouldn't be required to do it. ... The underlying assumption seems to be ... that students will write clearly and correctly by some sort of blessed intuition if only the teacher does not depress them with such inconvenient and unprofitable matters as spelling, paragraphing, punctuation, sentence structure, grammar and the choice and order of words...
...Muscovites love their city. They talk a lot about it. It seemed to depress them that I should see it sandbagged and packed up for war, even the lights in its subways dimmed. They seemed to think it wasn't fair of me to look at it and judge it when it was not at its best...
Stock traders divide their December attention between the year-end dividend crop and their March 15 income-tax returns. Last week sales for tax purposes weighed heavily on the New York Stock Exchange, helped depress it still further...