Word: wilfrid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...conversations 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...