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Britain's newspaper publishers, already cramped by a newsprint shortage and soaring prices, caught another body blow. The Newsprint Supply Co. Ltd., the nonprofit cooperative through which the publishers allocate their newsprint supplies, announced last week that paper was so short that the wartime rationing system would have to be reimposed. Under it, the use of newsprint will be limited to the level of 1950's first nine months, thus force every paper either to freeze its circulation or to cut its size, already down to six or at most eight pages...
Wryly, publishers called the move "self-imposed, under duress." They were forced to it by a crisis of the Labor Government's own making. While the Government had gone on exporting 75,000 tons of British newsprint this year to Australia (whose newspapers run as high as 48 pages), it had choked off almost all Canadian newsprint imports to save $7,-500,000 in Canadian credits. Scandinavian suppliers, quick to take advantage of the shortage created by the Canadian embargo, had boosted prices to Britain in 10 months from ?30 to ?35 a ton. Higher prices alone, warned...
...Natión arrested without explanation. They were released after a few hours, but since then more than a dozen ruses have been employed to try to put the papers out of business. Perón has personally urged readers to boycott La Prensa. Laws governing the import of newsprint have been juggled to take paper away from La Prensa and La Natión and give it to pro-Perón papers...
Once, government inspectors forced La Prensa to clear its warehouse of paper and put it in the street, ostensibly so that they could make an inspection of steam pipes. The "inspection" dragged on until rain ruined the newsprint...
...past several months, the supply of newsprint has tightened and the grey-market price has shot up. Last week, amid rumors of a newsprint shortage, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reluctantly announced: it can't get the paper it needs and will have to ration advertising (old customers served first). Rationing would cut its volume 20% under last year's. Said President George C. Diggers: "We figured we would save some newsprint by consolidating the Sunday papers (TIME, March 27), but we did not save enough to make up for the expansion of the daily Constitution . . . For a while...