Word: monitoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Censorship of out-going news in this country is far more stringent than the worst ever enforced by Germany, according to Erwin D. Canham, managing editor of the Christian Science Monitor, who spoke at P. B. H. last night on "Newspapers and the World...
...When the Lisbon correspondent of the Monitor was expelled by Portugal," he explained, "he covered substantially the same news from New York...
Action East. A U.S. destroyer heeled into harbor at Wellington, N.Z., boiled to its anchorage at 23 knots (15 knots above the harbor speed limit). Aboard was the Christian Science Monitor's mild, sandy-haired Correspondent Joseph C. Harsch, who wrote...
...days before Japan attacked the U.S. an FCC monitor in Oregon heard a new and interesting short-wave signal: no message, just two-and three-letter calls. Promptly all monitoring stations in the U.S. began to listen for it. Directional measurements were taken in Texas, in Nebraska, in Georgia, in Massachusetts, in Maryland. Triangulations were worked out. By the time the transmitter began sending messages-in code-FCC knew about where it was. It was about in the German Embassy...
Even the Christian Science Monitor's war correspondent, Joseph C. Harsch, was fooled: "I awoke my wife and asked her if she wanted to know what an air raid sounded like in Europe. 'This,' I remarked, 'is a good imitation.' We then proceeded to the beach for our morning swim, assuming with everyone else in the hotel that it was just another practice maneuver by the Navy....Only when the radio began telling the people what had happened could one grasp the incredible fact...