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...months British newsmen in the U.S. have simmered with distaste under such restraints. Last week, when they found it almost impossible to transmit to England any dispatch even hinting U.S. civilian distaste for the North African deal with Vichyite Admiral Jean François Darlan, they boiled over...
Annoyed most was the London Sunday Dispatch's irascible, Hearst-like Don Iddon. He fired a transatlantic cable: "This is a protest. . . . The American censorship is tough and hard and very stringent. . . . We are all worried. . . . Last week I had seven dispatches either suppressed in their entirety or so badly mauled . . . they were ruined...
Worst example of the harsh censorship came in mid-week when lanky, hard-working Alistair Cooke, now a U.S. citizen, correspondent for British Broadcasting Corp., London Times, and London Daily Herald, tried to send a dispatch to the Herald naming a few of the things correspondents had not been permitted to transmit. He learned correspondents are even forbidden to report what sort of reports are forbidden. Blue-penciled from his dispatch was, among other things, this: "Most British correspondents agree . . . that it is practically impossible to report any news item about the [U.S. race] problem...
...brief A.P. dispatch from North Africa recorded the perfect epitaph for Nick Craw: "He was born...
Said a past president-general of the United Daughters of the Confederacy: "It is one of the most horrible things I've ever seen." Said Bishop James Cannon Jr. in the Richmond Times-Dispatch: "The woman's back and hips are poorly portrayed." Said Artist Binford: "When and how did this bishop become an authority on the 'backs and hips' of nude women? Scat, Bishop! Get off my scaffold. I am not trying to swarm your pulpit." Result: his mural is still in the sketch stage...