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AXIS INFLUENCE ON
A BORDER DISPUTE
THE farcical little war between fudo-China and Thailand has been played out and now the real signi- ficance of the affair will crystallise in the peace negotiations which are to take place in Tokyo. The case with which the Japanese brought about
in cessation of hostilities does not allay
apprehension. Rather, it confirms the views of those who have thought from the beginning
ing that the most powerful nation In the Far East fomented those waters the more casily to fish in them, and the tact that the French delegates will go to Tokyo, where itilier's henchmen bave alinost unbounded Influence in the councils of their Axis partner, opens up disturbing visions of what the ultimate terms will yield.
THE GLORY THAT IS GREECE THE GRANDEUR THAT WAS ROME
Foreign
Blacking-Out
Correspondents
By William Henry Chamberlin
T
SCOUT JOINS UP
HIS is a true dog story.
Scout is a largo Airedale, a most handsome dog, but al though he is several years old he has not the Airedale instinct of guarding his home and his people. No, he seems to like mon bost, especially soldiers,
Lately he has distressed his mistress by leaving her for daya on end, then turning up too ex- hausted to do anything but sleep.
But now at lost the has found out what has been puzzling her-where he goes. He disappeared for almost a week the other day, and she had at last decided that he must be dead But strange reports began to reach her. "Oh, Mrs X, I thought I saw Scout. What, you've lost him? Well, There he was marching along an pleased as Punch, keeping time and overything with the soldiers! He did look well, the same colouring and everything."
Or, "I saw Scout at the Town Hall. He was walking up and down, with the sentry!" Or, "I saw Scout at the Town Hall; he came and spoke to me, then a couple of soldiers went in and whistled for him-he was off like a shot."
She had decided to go down ber- self to the Town Hall and give the dog's licence to the soldiers. But one night she had a visitor with the errant dog attached to a leash.
"Here he is," gasped her visitor proudly. "I got him at the Town Hall. He was sitting beside the sol- dier on duty, I just said that I knew the person to whom he belonged. He said, "Well, he won't leave ur. We've fed him well and to-night he's. had a bath' **
Sure enough Scout had an aroma of scented soap.
Ko
So now Scout is recovering from his marching, sleeping on the rug in front of the fire, until the urge comes. Then my friend has no doubt where he will be, and she says she is going to tell them they can keep him.
Joan Thornton
THESE are hard days for the countries, the Soviet Union, Japan, under his own name. But the cor- foreign correspondent, Not and France; in all three the de- respondent cannot send what he doe: terioration during the last year has not know, and he cannot know very so much because his work takes been little short of catastrophic. The much about a country all of whose him where people are being life of the foreign newspaperinan in citizens are terrorised against com- statistical bit of information after unother has been suppressed since bombed or torpedoed, but rather Russia, with one brief interlude, has ing into contact with him. because it has become imposai. always been a struggle with the cen- hand Russion contacts greatly re- unti! the picture of Japan's economy This state of isolation from Arst- the beginning of the war in China,
ble or extremely difficult to practice his trade over a large and increasing part of the world.
Kor.
Than
growing black-out of Independent other European countries, most of reintroduced
A
duced the value of the formal aboll- which can be drawn up resta even tion of the : Ceisorship which was on- more on guesswork and less on as- nounced when Vyacheslaff Moloton certainable facts and figuren than During the first years of my Mus: took over the portfolio of Foreign was the ease three or four years ago cow assignment, from
1922 until Affairs from Maxim Litvinoff May,
* Side by side with the physical 1920, the censorship was compara- 1930. However, thly abolition of black-out that darkens the streets of tively mild, in the light of Inter de censorship did not last long. Since The four months before the out- the cities and large towns of the
velopments, Although it
was more Jan. 1, 1940, consorship has been break of the war which I spent in belligerent countries there is an ever- severe
any which existed in
with unprecedented
ated France represented my first experi- rigour. The last newspaper cor- ence in a foreign country without news reporting which finds expres- which at that time were free from respondent remaining in Russia left the restraining hand of a visible or sion in various forms: censurship, censorship. Restrictions on foreign his post a few weeks ago with a invisible censer, although, in Justice Intimidation, expulsion and, most correspondents became more severe a long dossier of stories which he to Japan, I must say that deletions effective of all, cutting off news at as conditions in the Soviet Union had not been allowed to send, most from my Tokyo dispatches were
few the source.
deteriorated, from 1929. until 1933. of thems based on material "In the and
unimportant.
THIS unaccustom- The great famine of 1032-33 was Soviet press, which is itself com- cd freedom almost completely concealed from the
Pletely under government control the war disappeared as soon as hotel in the It is now known that the Thai-
Independent reporting has alto- knowledge of the outside world, Cor-_A_situation had been reached centre of Paris was taken over
over by landers occupied-a-substantial-port-Tether ceased in the Soviet Union of Cambodia and some part of Laos
where more information could be the
the ever-increasing horde censors.
of cellson and Western Europe which are
obtained from the Soviet and though the acmies have, or will
news- There were special censorship de under under Soviet and German military be, withdrawn six miles from their
papers than from the messages of partments for military affairs, for occupation. The foreign corres- fighting fronts, the aggressor country.
correspondents in Moscow.
foreign affairs, for finance and econo- pondent leads ar Increasingly
mica, for French
and politics; what Thailand, will still be in pussession of horassed and restricted existence in part of the territory claimed. it is
ono censor spared might be blacked In unoccupied France he is worthy of note that Bangkok first laid
the double control of the di sublect claim a few islands in the Mekong French censorship and of the Iliver and it seems extraordinary that
suro which Germany sun
constantly national resurgence could from this small beginning raise auch a mighty applies to the Vichy regime to per-
action mit
or expression and sudden clumour for the greater
Upinion which could be construed as part of Laos and Cambodia without unfriendly to the Third Reich, Cen- very definite aspiration backed
up
In sorship is severe even countries by promises of solid support. Japan whet
where administrative independence laid great emphusis on the
has been maintained, In Switzer- nationalistic spirit that was thus
land, Spain, and the Balkans.
Curiously enough, Berlin, after the outbreak of the war, was in one way a freer news. centre than was Paris. Germany dispensed with the preli- minary censorship of messages which was imposed in France from the ben ginning of hostilities. But a Damo-
to a
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round the
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almost perfectly with the Hitlerion
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The author is a veteran newspaper- man who has re- presented the "Christian Science Monitor" in Russia, Japan and France. In this article, he gives you his honest views about censors and censorship.
and the word
☆
To deal with the French wartime
tions of government officials, then, which
not
was
One's reaction to Japan's way with out by another. The large white the foreign press depended, as I spaces which began to appear in.. came to realise, upon whether one to the activity of the news control.
French newspapers was a testimony came to Tokyo from New York or 19, from Moscow. Colleagues fresh from America chafed and fumed over the censorship was exasperating, but it dificulties of obtaining real news in was also instructive, Over the whole Tokyo, the evasions and procrastina-
constantly its ramifications, there secrecy that shrouded some affairs of brooded an atmosphere of smother- state.
ing bureaucratiam. There was never. any idea of Coming from the Soviet Union, on
making a constructive the other hand, I felt that Japan use of the foreign correspondents,
ail of almost
of whom were sympathetle could almost be considered a liberal with France; petty pinpricks and de- country. Censorship was sporadic, ays were habitual and some of the continuous; the Japanese a good delctions from messages, especially by Moscow standards, enjoyed a
most Incredibly pointless. one could meet cles sword of expulsion hung over respondents were forbidden to visit deal of freedom, even if it was dis- those sent from the front, were al- the head of the newspaperman who the stricken regions of Ukraina and ressingly inaccurate; one cou
I remember one message in which minded Japanese without made what the Nazi unthorities con- the North Caucasus
be cabled from fearing for ne consequences to them, the French authorities for permitting a compliment which I had paid to The French ore in a dilemma; they
sidered an indiscreet use of his free- famine could not
Moscow.
certainly could not meet Rus- the Alsatians to USC dom.
their have to assuage the Thailanders
sians suspected of being out of One could only use such comparn-
language In whose bellicasily now no longer needs
newspapers, churches. inspiration because of the success it
tively mild expressions as hardship, sympathy with the Soviet order.
One could travel freely not only and public signs, instead of enforcing hus experienced; they have
In Italy, where the roll of expelled malnutrition, etc, which did not con- concede to the Jupaneze as much as foreign correspondents is a long one, vey any adequate Information about in Japan, but in Korea and Man- the use of French, was crossed out.
chukuo and in
in some parts of China A colleague had the similarly curious can
without losing
the unfortunate journalist gets the the situation. The same euphemis which were under Japanese military he had written about Strasbour
experience of seeing a story which like to vereignty; they would
gloss
was imposed as regards the
occupation. The police, to
to be sure, appease the Chluese who consider
German systems. Ha messages are process officially called the "liquid were exasperatingly numerous and with references to the fact that the
class," which them faint-hearted neighbours of censored; but censorship is no guar- tion of the kulaks as a
1,000,000 of the inquisitive as soon as one got off the Marseillaise was wrilien there, cut little, worth; they would like to anty of immunity from later disci- meant that about
peasants well-to-do
were main travelled routes; but i journey to ribbons, for no sane political or This growing black-out of the driven from their hermes, often in ed from one end of the Japanese military reason whatever, by some Independent foreign news reporter is the ferce cold of the Russian winter Empire to another without experienc. capricious censor. important becaure it means a steady and, in many instances, deported to ing anything more serious than an contraction of the news sources on places in the Arctic wilderness, with occasional shortness of temper. which public opinion is based. How the inevitable accompanying losa of many first-hand news stories, co children, and elderly, men.
life, especially among cut of Paris, Amsterdam,
Brussels, Furi
Warsaw, Copen? Has the reader the and Prague In these least opportunity to know what has
"
to
all
worsi both the French and the
resume normal trade relations with pilde. the British with whom they have common if weakening bond,
whites interesting to speculate that while French overseas possessions are still secure from Hitler and while the Japanese are still obedient to
French Berlin,
Indo-China will probably
remain itself, artificial though its status may be. Once it falls
more
women,
is one
own
zones.
dic rest of io French Empire will happened in Eatonin, Latvia, Lithu- what relaxed after 1934, when the shock last August to read that James Httle more dent, in to-day
It has become stil) 'more difficult- to cover France since the collapse Recently, however, there has been and the division of the country into abundant indication that the foreign occupied and, unoccupied newspaperman in Japan is having a Paris, once the coveted post of the Censorship restrictions were some pretty hard row to hoc. it wan a continental.
of new
news than realise that it is time only and not
Cox, veteran Reuter correspondent Prague or Warsaw. It is under the ania, Eastern Feland, and Bessarable worst of the Five-Year Plan atroci in Tokyo, had passed away while in heel of German military occupation; Armistice conditions, that
keeps
were over, But the ruthless them from Axis rule and they will
since these regions passed under the tles control of the Soviets?
purges of the Communist Party, the custody of the Japanese police, and the few stories which are sent from Paris must sent by correspon have From until Accompanying circumstances
through Berlla then throw in their lot wholeheartedly with
the
For that matter, has anyone dur- which began in 1935 and lasted Allies, instead of withhold-
ing recent years been able to get 1938, cut the foreign journalist in made the official explanation-sufelde and can only he sent ing support at the behest of a Vichy Independent Grst-hand testimony
Moscow, off from
all his formerly-seem doubtful to some experienced dents who are accredited to Germany.
There are Government which will have lost
almost equally great dis- most potent weapon. It is probable
to the working out of the experiment precarious news sources. The most
Cox, a serious, hard-working news- advantages in writing news from that Syria and Algeria are saving
in collective farming in Russia, or dangerous offence for Russians, Com-
Vichy, where the shadowy govern- Indo-China to-day. Hitler
as to what military and Industrial munists, and non-Cornmunists alike paperman, had been arrested on a undertakings have been started in was association with foreigners. The charge of espionage, and the defini- ment is afraid to let pass anything Eastern Siberia, or as to how Soviet Russians took the hint; and the tion in Japan has now become so which might offend Germany. More-
over, conditions of
ara Bo travel correspondenta were left sweeping and so vague that almost over, nationality policy is being applied in foreign
dimcult that it Ja almost impossible the non-Russian rogions of the Soviet Isolated, just like the diplomats in any normal subject of journalise check up an conditions by making Union? How many foreigners have Moscow.
could come under this. to check Investigation
Lyons, From the standpoint of the intelll- head. I know of a Japanese em- trips to Marseilles, Toulouse, been allowed to vielt those parts of China where the Soviet writ counts gent censor, this isolation was more ployee in a foreign consulate in and other towns of the unoccupied for more than the Chinese, such as effective than the most extensive use Japan who was sentenced to three area. If present conditions remain Outer Mongolia and Sinklang. or of the blue pencil. A story that a years of imprisonment because he substantially unchanged, France, once correspondent knows does usually made a conjectural estimate as to the perhaps the best-known European
cannot
afford to face a united Arabic world which would back up Turkey and Greece and kindle a new flante even through the Balkans.
The Peace Conference at Tokyo may hold unpleasant things for us
for instance the occupation by Japan
ese forces of a "disputed area" "op posito Malaya-but for French Indo- China It Is a dilemuna which the Japanese will solve for them.
Chinese Turkesinn?
observers.
I know from experience Journalis- get out somehow, even if the jour- number of automobiles in a certain country is Americans, may become a tic working conditions in three nalist is unable to send it directly part of the Japanese Empire. One mysterious, almost a dark land,