Word: whats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the Finnish delegation to Moscow went home with corns and cool heels on its diplomatic feet from having patiently attended the Soviet Foreign Office, but with considerable pride in its heart in not having yet knuckled under to the U.S.S.R. After four days without so much as seeing...
So conscious of their moral obligations are its editors that they publish no divorce actions, no slander suits, no suicides. Some years ago a member of the Argentine Cabinet killed himself, explaining in a note that because of political opposition he could no longer do what was best for the...
Not yet in force were censorship's more drastic provisions. Newsmen were not required to submit stories to the censor before publication, but-as in Germany-they were held personally responsible to the Government for what they wrote. For printing unwelcome news they could be fined $5,000, sentenced...
But what irked correspondents most was not censorship: it was the dark fog of secrecy in which the Government carried on its war. When war began, Canada set up a Bureau of Information to handle official news, then suddenly abandoned it, let each Government department appoint its own press officers...
For ten weeks no correspondent has seen the Prime Minister. Only official statements about the war that Canadians hear regularly are broadcast by an anonymous spokesman of the Department of National Defense. In a dull, flat, impersonal monotone he tells the public what its Government is doing.