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...last week the news out of Tokyo was hot, and the censors, who had meantime permitted him to do his own telephoning once more, caught up with Wilfrid Fleisher in the middle of a revealing sentence...
...York Herald Tribune's Tokyo correspondent, Wilfrid Fleisher, who is also managing editor of Japan's best English-language newspaper, Japan Advertiser, likes to tell about playing catch-as-catch-can with Japanese censors. When he found that Japanese could tag him whenever he wrote things down, but lagged far behind when he spoke English, he began telephoning his stories to the Tribune...
...down on records, but were never quite quick enough to catch him in the act of spilling beans. Finally they told him: "So sorry. Weather no longer suitable for Japan-America transoceanic telephoning." When he complained, even the Foreign Office said it could not improve the weather. So Wilfrid Fleisher cabled the Tribune to telephone him from Manhattan each day. America-Japan weather seemed fine, and for a while, he says, the new system had the censor completely baffled...
Like many of St. Louis' facultymen and students, quiet, scholarly Dr. Moyer Springer Fleisher, ousted head of the University Medical School's bacteriology department, is neither a Jesuit nor a Roman Catholic. Two and a half years ago he became a sponsor of the Medical Bureau to Aid Spanish Democracy. St. Louis' Jesuit trustees were annoyed. When, year and half ago, the committee sponsored a pro-Loyalist speech in St. Louis by an allegedly unfrocked Irish priest, Michael O'Flanagan, St. Louis' Catholic Club and Archbishop John J. Glennon were more than annoyed; they demanded...
...ravages of Nature have never stopped Japanese and last week they pushed on with their war in China. In Tokyo a big question was still what decisions of basic policy concerning the China war have been quietly taken by the Japanese Cabinet. Able Wilfred Fleisher of the New York Herald Tribune thought he had found out in Tokyo last week. According to him, the Cabinet decided that once the Japanese Army takes Hankow, the present Chinese capital, no further invasion of China will be pressed. Since the beginning of the war observers have agreed that the most vital question...