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COMMUNIST PRESS.

We accept your view that current situation demands

action now against the Press; but we are doubtful whether

action against the independent newspapers would curb

activities of leading Communist Press. It appears to us

almost inevitable that any measures taken against former

would lead very quickly to need to consider similar measures against the latter, particularly if material which had formed the subject of legal action against independent newspapers appeared in identical or similar form in the

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