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THE GLORY THAT IS GREECE THE GRANDEUR THAT WAS HOME
Blacking-Out Foreign Correspondents
By William Henry Chamberlin
THESE are hard days for the countries, the Soviet Union, Japan, under his, own name.
But the cor
SCOUT JOINS UP
HIS is a true dog story.
Scout is a large Airedale,
a most handsome dog, but nl-· though he is several years old he has not the Airedala instinct of `. guarding his home, and his people. No, he seems to like men best, especially soldiers.
Lately he has distressed his mistress by leaving her for days. on end, then turning up too ex- hausted to do anything but sleep.
But now at last she has found out what has been puzzling her--where he goes. He disappeared for almost a week the ather 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 as pleased as Punch, keeping Ume and everything with the soldiers! He did topic 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 the Town Hall; he come and spoke to me, then a couple of soldiers went in and whistled for him-he was off like a that."
She had decided to go down tier- self to the Town Hail 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," Kamped her visitor proudly. T
"I got him at the Town Hall. He was sitting beside the sol- dier on duty. I just cald that I knew the person to whom he belonged. He said, "Well, he won't leave U We've fed him well and to-night he's (had a bath!"
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Sure enough Scout had an arcma of scented soap.
So now Scout in recovering from hls marching, sleeping on the rug in front of the dire, until the urge to go 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
foreign correspondent. Not and France; in all three the de- respondent cannot send what he doc so much because his work takes been little short of catastrophic. The much about a country all of whose statistical bit of information after terioration during the last year has not know, and he camiot know vers him where people are being life of the foreign new puperman in citizens are terrorised against corn- Indo-China and Thailand has been bombed or torpedoed, but rather Russia, with one brief interlude, has ing into contact with him.
another has been suppressed since
THE farcical tile war between
played out and now the real signi- Inance of the affair will crystallite in the peace negotiations which are to take place in Tokyo. The case with watch the Japanese brought about A commation di nostuities does not allmy
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apprehension. Hather, it confirms
the views of those who have thought from the begining that the most powerful nation in 心 Für kust Jomwented those waters the more easily to fish in them, and the act Uat the French delegates will go lo Lokyo, where tier's nenchmen nave amusz unbounded influence in the councils of their Axis partner, opens up disturbing visions of what the
Humate ternis wii yield.
the source.
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tion
with
because it has become impossi- always been a struggle with the cen- This state of isolation from first. the beginning of the war in China, hand Russian contacts greatly re- until the pleture of Japan's economy blo or extremely difficult to
duced the value of the formal aboli- which can be drawn up rests even practice his trade over a large
of the censorship which was an- more on guesswork and less on as and increasing part of the
nounced when Vyachesla Malotoff certainable facts and figures than During the first years of my Mos took over the portfalls of Fortin was the case three or four years ago. world..
cow assignment, from 1022 until Affairs from Maxim Litvino in May, Side by side with the physical 1928, the censorship was compara- 1939. However, this abolition of black-out that darkens the streets of tively mild, in the light of later de- censorship did not last long. Slace The four months before the out- the cities and large towns of the velopments, although it was more Jan. 1, 1940, censorship has been break of the war which I spent in belligerent countries there is an ever- severe than any
existed in growing black-out of independent other European countries, isostat reintroduced unprecedented France represented my first experi-
rigour. news reporting which finds expres which at that time were free frem respondent remaining in Russin let the restraining hand of a visible or The last newspaper cor- ence in a foreign country without sion in various forms: censorship,
Restrictions on foreign intimidation, expulsion and, most correspondents becure more severe lopu dosfer of stories, which he to kapan, I must say that deletions
his post a weeks ago censor, although, effective of all, cutting off news at as conditions In the Soviet Union had not been allowed to send, most from
deteriorated, from 1020 until 1933. the
my Tokyo dispatches were few them based on material in the and unimportant. This unaccustom- The great famine of 1932-33 was Soviet press, which is itself com- ed freedom disappeared as soon as Kovernment control. the war began. A huge hotel in the been reached centre of Paris way-taken over by where more information could be the
ever-increasing horde of abtained from
of censore. the Soviet news Therz were special censorship de- papers than free the messages of partments for milliary affairs, for correspondents in Moscow.
foreign affairs, for finance and econo mics, for French politics; and what one censor spared might be blacked 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 French newspapers won a
testimony came to Tokyo from New York or to the activity of the news control.
To deal with the French wartime from Moscow. Colleagues fresh from America chafed and fumed over the censorship was exasperating, but it Over the whole of obtaining real news in west to white Tokyo, the evasions and procrastina- Institution, tlons of government officials, the extending ito
state.
and
almost completely concealed from the pletely under Independent reporting has alta- knowledge of the outside world. Cor- A situation had
It is now known that the Thal- Inders occupied a substantial part-gether ceased-in-the-Soviet Union- Di Cambodia and some part of Laus and though the armies llave, or wail be, Wimurawn six miles from their figote: irents, the aggressor country,
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an
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foreign
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increasingly. harassed and restricted existence in Jupan. In unoccupied France he is subject to the double control of the French censorship and of the pres-
which Bure
Germany
constantly
part of the territory claimed.. It is worthy of note that Bangkos first laid cam to a few is unus in the Mekong Kiver and it seems extraordinary
ry that national resurgence could sannil vegna fake such a mighty applies to the Vichy regime to per-
mli
action greater
of or expression and aduen eramour for
for the
upittion which could be construed as part of Laos and Cambodia without
delinite inspiration backed up sorship is severe even in countries
unfriendly to the Third Reich. Cen very by promises of solid
where administrative independence has been maintained, as in Switzer- land, Spain, and the Balkans.
Curiously enough, Berlin, after the outbreak of the war, was in one way a freer news centre than was Parls, Germany dispensed with the preli minary censorship of messages which
Bret Sapan
that
on 10 Ane was thus
mid nationalistic spirit
called into being and mysteriously has placed it like a nao round like heads of the Thailanders-an ein-
phasis that is incongruaus when com- pared with China's great struggle for existence, bul which harbiontses almost perfectly with the Hitlerian
countries in Europe and the founda- tion of strategic points.
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The French are in a dilemma; they have to assuage the Tumanders whose. bellicosity now no longer needs inspiration because of the success at has experienced; they have to concede to the Japanese as much as
tlicy con without losing all
ginning of hostilities. But a Damo-
will Copenhis,
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.
tion of the
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constantly
there of smother- was never
secrecy that shrouded some affairs of brooded an ions,
ing
bureaucratism.
There was any idea of making a constructive Coming from the Soviet Union, an the other hand, I felt that Japan use of the foreign correspondents, could almost be considered
almost all of whom were sympathetic liber with France; petty pinpricks and de- country. Censorship was
sporadic, wit
by
not continuous; the Japanese, press, lays were habitual and some of the detetions from messages, especially deal of freedom, even critically aninded Japaness without
As
it was
to
own
use their In newspapers, en
churches,
use of French, was crossed out.
X
was imposed in France from the. be- O PARTEA AJALUGU, Moscow standards, enjoyed & those scut from the front, were al- clea sword of expulsion hung over respondents were forbidden to visit deal of the head of the newspaperman who the stricken regions of Ukraina and Lessingly inaccurate; one could meet most incredibly pointless, made what the Nazi authorities con- the North Caucasus and the word fearing for the consequences to them: compliment which. I had paid to I remember one message in which sidered an indiscreet use of his free- tumine could nol be cabled from
s one certainly could not meet Rus- the French authorities for permitting dcm.
Moscow.
sians suspected of being out the
of One could only use such compar sympathy with the Soviet order,
Jaans tively mild expressions as hardship,
and public signs, instead of enforcing One could travel freely not only and In Italy, where the roll of expelled malnutrition, etc., which did not con In Japan, but in Kurea and Man- foreign correspondents is a long one, sey atty adequate informationenistic cukup and in some parts of China A colleague had the similarly curious the unfortunate journalist gets the the situation. The same euphemistic cu Sovereignty; they would liko Lo worst of both the French and the gloss was imposed as regards the which were under Japanese military experience of seeing a story which he had written about Strasbourg, appease the Chinese who comidar German systeins. His messages are proces mclatly called the "liquidn- occupation. The police, to be sure, with references to the fact that the
faint-hearted neighbour of censored; but censorship is no guar- fon kuluks as a a class," which were exasperatingly numerous and little worth; they would like to anty of Immunity from later disci- meant that about 1,000,000 of the Inquisitive is soon us one got off the Marseillaise was written, there, cut resume normal trade relations with pline.
mare well-in-do peasants were main travelled routes; but i journey, to ribbons, for no sane political or The British with whom they have a This growing black-out of the driven from their homes, often in ed from one end of the Japanes military reason whatever, by, some common If weakening bond.
sident foreign news reporter is the lerce cold of the Russian winter Empire to another without experiene. Euprielous censor.
because it means a steady and, in many instances, deported to ing anything more serious than an It is interesting to speculate that contfaction of the news sources on places in the Arctic wilderness, with occasional thortness of temper while French overseas pussessions are which opinion is based. How the inevitable accompanying loss of
It has become stilt more dimcult! still secure from Hitier and wlule ! man. ខ្ល
Pt-hand news stories
life, especially among women,
to cover France since the collapse the Japanese are still obedient to out of
children, and elderly men..
Recently, however, there has, been and the division of the country into. Berlin.
Amsterdem, French Indo-China
Warsaw, and Prague in
abundant indication that the foreign occupied
unoccupied zones. probably remain itself, artifiemt
Has
the reader the
newspaperman in Japan is having # Paris, once the coveted port of the though its status may be. Once it falls least opportunity to know what has Censorship restrictions were some pretty hard row to her. It was a continental correspondent, in to-day. the rest of the French Empire will realise that it is time only and not
happened in Estonia, Latvia, Lithu what relaxed after 1934, when the hock last August to read that Jamen little more productive of news than Cox. veteran Reuter correspondent Prague or Warsaw. It is under the ania, Eastern Poland, und Bessarabia worst of the Five-Year Plan atroc!- Armistice conditions, that keeps
in
Tokyo, had passed away while in heel of German military occupation: since these regions passed under the Wes them from Axis rule and they will
the rule the custody of the Japanese polles and the few stories which are sent control of the
of Soviets?
the Communist Party, then throw in their lot wholeheartedly For that matter, has anyone dur which began in 1935 and lasted in made the official explanation-sutelde and can only be sent by correspott- Accompanying elrcumstances have from Paris must pass through Berlin with the Allies, Instead of withhold ing recent years been able to get 1938, cut the foreign jourormerly-teem doubtful to some experienced dents who are accredited to Germany.. ing support nt the behest of a Vichy
Independent Government which will have lost its
all his observers. first-hand testimony as Moscow oft from to the working out of the experknent precarious news sources. The most
There are almost equally great dis- most potent weapon. It
In collective forming in Russia, or dangerous offence for Russians, Com- Cox, a serious, hard-working news- advantages in writing news from that Syria and Algeria are caving as to what military and industrial munists, and non-Communists alike paperman, had been arrested on a Vichy, where the shadowy govern Indo-Ching to-day. Hitler
undertakings have been started in wan association with foreigners. The charge of espionage, and the defal- ment is afraid to let pass anything 1 35,000 Ton Battleship afford to face a united Arable world, Eastern Siberia, or as to how Soviet Russians took the hint: und the tion. In Japan line now become so which might offend Germany,
nationality policy is bele Soviet isolated, just like the diplomats in any normal subiret of journalistle dimcult that
applied In foreign correspondents wero left sweeping and to vague that almost over, conditions of travel are so the non-tusalan regions of
is almost impossible Union? How many foreigners have Moscow.
investigation could come under this to check up on cont tions by making!! been allowed to visit those parts of From the standpoint of the intelli- head. I know of a Japanese est trips to Marsellies, Lyons, Toulouse,. China where the Soviet writ counts gent censor, this relation was more played in a foreign consulate 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 Chinese Turkestan?
correspondent know does usually made a conjectural estimate as to the perhaps the best-known European. I know from experience journals- get out somehow, even if the four- number of automobiles in a certain country to Americans, may, become a
working conditions three nalist is unable to send it directly part of the Japanese Empire. One mysterious, almost a darkt land.
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The Peace Conference at Tokyo may hold unpleasant things for us
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