Word: editor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME'S cinema editor, no dog-fancier, meant Irish wolfhound. For a Norwegian elkhound...
Perhaps the cinema editor meant Irish wolfhound...
...news was flashed to every newspaper in London. No editor could fail to grasp its meaning: the Navy was acutely fearful of being bombed. Leader articles were quickly written. Appearing soon in London were such headlines as "All Anti-Aircraft Guns in Fleet Manned." Then over tickers in every Fleet Street news office came a notice...
...Private and confidential memo to editor. We are asked by the Admiralty to issue the following 'D' notice: In the national interests the speech of Lord Stanhope, First Lord of the Admiralty, in the Ark Royal tonight should not be published...
Censorship? To every British editor an Admiralty "D" notice is something he must obey or risk prosecution under the Official Secrets Act. Hangover from the World War, the "D" notice is often used on news of warship movements, and was prominently used in 1935 during the Ethiopian crisis, when newspapers were ordered not to print the departure of the British fleet to the Mediterranean. No "D" or any other kind of order, however, has ever been issued forbidding the report of a responsible Cabinet Minister's speech; in fact, such an order seemed a clear infraction of freedom...