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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
April 10, 1941.
American Views On British Censorship
There is apparent in what are generally called official circles in London some slight irritation with America's "censorship complex," It urises, perhaps, from the conviction that there are more important issues, plus the belief that Americans are not entitled to substantially greater or more sensational news than the British public, states "PM's" London correspondent.
London censorship is often slow and inefficient; sometimes downright stupid. But, on the basis of a fair amount of ex- perience with totalitarian censorship, I am convinced that Lon- don's policy is the most liberal anywhere, continues the correspon- dent.
It is obviously true that in- formation designed to aid or as-
sist Britain's enemies is sup U.S. To Have
pressed; but no hard working reporter in Britain is dependent entirely upon "official spoken- men" for his information.
For example, last July I saw in detail defences of the most vulnerable English coastline, was permitted to talk with the captains of the gun crews and was told how much ammunition they had--or rather didn't have,
Inspects Defences
saw seven miles of open beach covered by one antiquated naval un, pillboxes without-Bren guns and all the other improvised and Inside quate defences of this Istond. At the time it was forbidden to reveal this information and, indeed, I made no attempt to do so.
But, on the basis of those obser- vations and with the knowledge of wint has been done aluce then,
is
300,000
Men In Navy
By the addition of 42,000 to its existing strength the person- nel of the United States Navy will be raised to close on 300,000 officers and men. Including re- serves, the authorised tolal was hitherto 251,448, out of which 239,281 were on duty by the end of September last.
Until this year American war- ships have been organised in two main divisions--the United States Fleet, with its main bases in California and Hawaii, und certalaly safe to kay-without the assistance of this mysterious
the Asiatic Fleet. A section of #military spokesman-that,
the former, based on the east the Germans attempt invasion now, it coast, was known as the Atlantic cost them 100 men for every Squad of the United States one they would have lost in Julie Fleet. It comprised a training ar July. Alfred Duft Cooper, Minister of unit formed by the four oldest Information, summed up the position battleships, one of which was de-- of British censorship white talking militarised some years ago, a with American correspondents the division of cruisers of the latest otlier day. He said:
a question of providing type, and a considerable num- Americans with a big headline or of ber of destroyers and sub- providing the Germans with useful marines. Information, you won't Ket your headline."
"I
This force is now to become a Tradition Of Tolerance separate fleet. Presumably for some time in come the majority of new Censorship in wartime is inevitable,nits will join it as they are comin-
ntissioned. It is irritating and unpleasant, but it may be useful to remember that, while British censors occasionally tell us what we can't say, they never try to tell us what we nitst say or write, says the "PM" representative.
Asiatic Fleet
bas hitherto been comparatively mo- The strength of the Asiatic Fleet
In Britain the tradition of tolerance dest. amounting only two or three
NOT FOR POLES—Fino delicatorson store in Warsaw, Poland, is permitted to sell its winos and cavior only to Germans, not Polos, Gormans must identify themsolvos. Picturo smuggled from Poland by Swiss journalist.
Orchids Action For
Duke's To
Lead Libel
The Duke of Westminster's orchids were mentioned in the King's Bench Division, London, recently, when the settlement was announced of a libel action in which the Duke was the plaintiff and the defendants were Daily Mirror Newspapers, Ltd.
Mr Valentine Holmes, for the
Duke, said that the Daily Mirror AMERICA'S
under the heading "Cassandra,' and entitled "Fragrant Frag- ments," published this:-
"Just a couple of, paragraphs lei- surely snipped from the news→→→
"Six hundred and forty-three chil
Is strong. So far as censorship and a similar number of submarines' dren under 16 were killed in air raids į
concerned military secrets are sacred.
cruisers, about düzen destroyers, with some depot ships, minesweepers,
But comment is free. For how muchbal and patrol vessels. of the rest of Europe can the same be sakl?
must
It is based on the Philippines, but
In a large measure, of course, one in the event of war its strategic value
air and nonvut news. No
neutral observers
* on offelal communiques for would be greatly enhanced, as the
broadenst.
were
British
naval base at Singapore there when the incident occurred.
would be at its disposal. The German communiques are still A very large number of new war- printed in Britain and no one has ships are under construction or on veen
beheaded or thrown into dur-order for the United States Navy, ance vile for listening to a German including 17 battleships, 12 aircraft
No responsible reporter would be and 80 submarines.
carriers, 48 cruisers, 100 destroyers wise to be placed in the position of defending any censorship. It is our
After the transfer to Britain of 50- Job to fight it. But it is to be re- destroyers designed during the last membered that the British consorswar,-the-United-States Navy retains are inexperienced-censorship is not in all about 170 destroyers, half of exactly in the British tradition, con- which are modern. Nearly all re cludes the message.
in full commission.
War Without Cheers For Nazi Germany
In the first of a series of articles on conditions inside Ger- many Wallace Deuel, who has just returned to the United States after six years in Berlin as correspondent of the "Chicago Daily News," describes the feeling of hopelessness which he found in Hitler's Relch.
"It is true," he writes, "that Germany has risen again, but the price in wear and tear of the people's nerves has been appall ing, and millions of Germans have ceased to believe, if they ever did, that it is possible to hope for rewards which would be worth the price.
"The German people are tired heard one lorry full of men singing. as few people in the world have All the others sat in silence. ever been tired without break the sidewalks did not even turn their "And Blue-tenths of the people on ing down. In a single genera-heads to watch the troops. I have tion they have gone through a never heard a spontaneous cheer for major war, a starvation block-passing troops except when normal ade and a catastrophic defeat. Parades were held. They have had two revolutions.
Berliners Not Happy They have had their currency "I was in two of the principal wiped out altogether once and have streets in Berlin for the Best half- been seriously threatened with the hour after the news became known same fate again.
that France had asked for terms. inst, I thought,
I should normal human reaction. It
All Except The Last
*CU
At
come was.
"They've lind the same exlinusting and disillusioning experiences of de after nil, one of the greatest military pression as the rest of the world has triumphs of all times. had, and now they have entered on "But there was no reaction to be new war.
seen, none at all. The Berliners looked neither jubilant nor happy "They are winning all the batiles nor even relieved. They looked just in the new war, it is true. But they the same as they had looked for more won all the battles In the last war, than six years. too-all except the last-and they tired. The second world war is n They just looked war without cheers as far as Ger-
have never forgotten it.
"Until the last battle in this war many is concerned." has been fought and won it, will be hard for millions of Germans to be- lleve it will be won at all. And, be- sides, unless that last battle is fought and won soon enough what good will victory ho to the Germans? The longer the war lasts the more the Germans will wonder if it is worth fighting.
Crippled On Way
Silent Men
To Wedding
rond, Eastville, Wilts, was to have Tom Reader, aged 54, of Muller- attended his daughter's wedding on a recent Saturday.
Instead he was taken to hospital with both feet sovered.
He fell in front of an oncoming train at Chippenham.
"Scores of times I have Been columns of motorised troops pouring through Berlin and - half a dozen other cities on their way to the front, first towarda Poland and Iatler to wards
the West. But among all no complaint, but merely asked for these columns I have only seen and telgarétto.
While receiving frst aid he made
during the month of October.
WARTIME INDUSTRY
The Duke of Westinaste's famous Saboteurs Among
collection of orchids has arrived in Florida in 15 packing cases, and will be cared for until the end of the war
by an expert florist."
Lord Haw-law Cited
as it is untrue," said Mr Holmes.
Employees
The U.S. Attorney-General,
"The obvious suggestion, that the; Duke is spending imoney in sending Mr Robert II. Jackson, revealed orchids to America and having them that the Federal Bureau of In- cared for there while poor children,vestigation has made a survey of whose parents cannot afford to send 1,200 plants which are working them across the water, tre being killed, is as offensive and damaging on defence orders and has es- tablished systems for trapping "How widely such unfounded soboteurs before damage can be damaging they can be, is perhaps best statements can be spread, and how done, says.a Washington-report. He said that spies and bomb. shown by the fact that the announcer throwers were not the most on the Bremen radio, who is usually known as Lord Haw-law, repeated serious danger to internal dé- them for German propaganda pur-fence, but agents attempting to incite labour trouble and urging The statement was reverse of the "business as tisual and appease- truth, he went on. Since the out- break of war the Duke had been atment of aggressors as the road very great pains to cut down his ex-to business profits." penditure his hothouse and flower Four strikes are in operation at gardens to an absolute minimum, and plants which are working under de- lo use them only in a way which fence contracts, notably at Allis would assist the national effort to Chalmers, at Mwaukee, which 15 produce food. He had sold orchid holding orders for $40,000,000 and at plants of great value, and a number International Harvester, Chicago, had been resold to America, which walch has a contract for $10.000,000. produced American currency for this
Unfair Practices country,
poses.**
As
.
The National Labour Relations Agreed To Settlement Board found International Harvester soon as the true fucts were guilty of unfair labour practices ut brought to their notice, defendants Six plants, including those at Chicago indicated thelr willingness to do and Rock Falls (III.), where strikes everything in their power to avert were holding up defence production. the consequences of the mistake into The
board
directed the company to cense Interfering which they had unwittingly fallen.
with employees a settlement on terms which involved
The Duke hnd therefore agreed to engaged in organization of unions.
Sidney
the Labour the payment of
a sum of money which s. Knudsen of the Office for
leader, who
children who suffered in air raids.
Management the supreme cerning itself with the interests of
satisfactory, and that he saw no defence labour situation
13 very reason for restrictive legislation. was never a better spirit of
21
Hillman with Mr W.
Pro-
he would hand over to a charity con-commission-said that the
their
Mr G. O. Slade, for the defendants, said they desired to express sincere regret to the Duke.
Mr Justice Wrotlesley allowed the record in the case to be withdrawn.
THEY MEASURE MINDS
(Continued from Page 3.)
show no nervousness In the face of an enemy. become nervous in nu examination room!
Leadership?
*We make allowances for that. But one thing the professors of Cambridge have not yet been able to discover is a test of leadership. "We can tell, within a small mar gin at error, whether a man practical, slow, quick, reliable, slop dash, nervous, atendy, or mathema- tical, but nothing yet known to the psychologists will tell us whether he possesses the ability to lend other men and to gain their respect and confidence."
The tests I have described are a kindergarten compared with some I have seen which are, set to members of the Royal Armoured Corps..
SATURDAY:
The New Infantry
Teration in industry than at pro- j
sent.
Mr E. R. Stettinius, a member of the National Defence Council, has asked manufacturers to economise in zinc, which is scarce, so that more will be
(of caete "ble for the manufacture
The Secretary for the Navy, Col. Frank Knox, denied that the Navy has established a peacetime censor- ship when he was asked why no publicity was given to the movements of warships.
Work For Objectors
The
U.S. War Department has announced that 80,000 of the avail- uble 103,000 reserve officers will be on active duty by June.
President Roosevelt has issued an
cutive
order authorising
Conscription,
of
the Mr
Dykstra, to prescribe work of national Importance for con- scientious objectora The
policy will
.
be under the direction of religious the
raft bons, supervised by
Objectors will work without wages, but the religious organisations, which will pay almost the entire cost. of operating the camps, will supply them with pocket money. It estimated that about 6,000 objectors bnve
registered:
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