Thursday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
April 10, 1941.
American Views On British Censorship
Thero la apparent in what are generally called official circles In London some slight irritation with America's "censorship complex." It arises, perhaps, from the conviction that there are more Important issues, plus the bellef 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 incllcient; 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-1 formation designed to aid or ag-
sist Britain's enemies is sup- U.S. To Have
pressed, but no hard working! reporter in Britain is dependent} entirely upon "official spokes-] men" for his information.
For example, last July I saw in detall defences of the most! vulnerable English constline, 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
I saw seven miles of uper hourly covered by one antiquated naval gun, pillboxes without Bren guns and all the other Improvised and inade quate defences of this island. At the time It was forbidden to reveal this information and, Indeed, I made 210 attempt to do so.
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 total 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 But, on the basis of those obser- minin divisions-the United vations and with the knowledge of States Fleet, with its main bases what has been done since then, in California and awali, and is certainly safe to say without the Asiatic Fleet.. A section of the assistance of this mysterious *military spokesman”—thai, if the the former, based on the east Germans attempt invasion now. It const, was known as the Atlantic cost them 100 men for every Squad of the United States Will one they would have lost in June Fleet. or July,
It comprised a training Alfred Duff Cooper, Minister of unit formed by the four oldest Information, sunned up the position] battleships, one of which was de- of British censorship while talking militarised some years ago, a with American correspondents thedivision of cruisers of the latest other day. He said;
It's
a question of providing type, and a considerable num- Americans with a big headling or of ber of destroyers and sub- providing the Germans with useful marines. information, you won't Ket your bradfine."
Tradition Of Tolerance
This force is now to become a separate fleet. Presumably for come time to come the majority of new units will join it as they are com- missioned.
Asiatic Fleet
Censorship in wartime is Inevitable, It is irritating and unpleasant, but it may be useful to remember that. while British censors aegaslomally tell; us what we can't say, they never try to tell us what we must say or write, has hitherto been comparatively mo- The strength of the Aslatie Pleet says the "PM" representative.
Is Britain the tradition of tolerance cruisers, about a dozen destroyers, dest, amounting only two or three strong. So
far as censorship concerned military seerels are sacred. sunilar number of submarings, But comment is free. For how much with some depot ships, minesweepers, of the rest of Europe ran the same neat and patrol vessels.
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be sald?
It is based on the Philippines, but In a large measure, of course, one in the event of war its strategie value must rely on official communiques for would be greatly enhanced, as the milltary, air and naval
No British news.
naval impartial neutral abservers
base at were would be at ts disposal,
Singapore there when the incident occurred.
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 been behended or thrown into dur-order for the United States Navy. ance vile for listening to a German Including 17 battleships, 12 aircraft- broadcast.
carriers, 48 cruisers, 100 destroyers
After the transfer to Britain of 50
War Without Cheers
For Nazi
Germany
UFS
NOT FOR POLES—Fino, delicatesson store in Warsaw, Poland, is permitted to sell its wines and caviar only to Germans, not Polos. Germans must identify themselvos, Picturo smuggled from Poland by Swiss journalist..
Duke's
Orchids Lead
To Action For Libel
The Duke of Westminster's orchids were mentioned in the King's Bench Division, London, recently, when the settlement was and the defendants were. Daily Mirror Newspapers, Ltd.' announced of a libet action in which the Duke was the plaintiff
Mr Valentine Holmes, for the Duke, said that the Daily Mirror, under the heading "Cassandra,” and entitled "Fragrant Prag- ments," published this:-
"Just a couple of paragraphs' lel-
dren under 16 were killed in air raids surely stipped from the newst
"Six hundred and forty-three chit- during the inonth of October.
The Duke of Westminster's famous of orchids has arrived in collection
he cared for until the end of the war Fluricia in 15 packing cases, and will by an expert florist,"
Lord Haw-Haw Cited
poses."
Since
AMERICA'S
WARTIME INDUSTRY
Saboteurs Among Employees
"The obvious suggestion, that the The U.S. Attorney-General, Duke is spending money in sending Mr Robert H. Jackson, revealed cared for there while poor children, vestigation has made a survey of orchids to Americh and having them that the Federal Bureau of In-
whose parents cannot afford to send No responsible reporter would be and 80 submarines.
them across the water, are being 1,200 plants which are working killed, is as offensive and damaging tablished systems for trapping on defence orders and has es- wise to be placed in the publth of defending any censorship. It is our
as it is untrue," said Mr Holmes. Job to light it. But it is to he re- destroyers designed during-the-last--statements can be spread and how done, says a Washington report. "How widely such unfounded soboteurs before damage can be Membered that the British censors war, the United States Navy retains damaging they can be, is perhaps best are inexperienced-censorship is not in all about 170 destroyer, half of shown by the fact that the announcer.
He said that spies and bomb- exactly in the British tradition, con- which are modern. Nearly all are n the Bremen radio, who is usually eludes the message.
{throwers were not the most in fuil commission.
known as Lord, Haw-Haw, repeated serious danger to internal de- frem for German propaganda pur-fence, but agents attempting to The statement was reverse of the business as usual and appease- incite Inbour trouble and urging the wet od ceniment of aggressors as the road very great pains to cut down his ex-to business profits." penditure on his bothouse on dower Four strikes are in operation at ordens to an absolute minimum, and plants which are working unter de to use them only in a way which fence contracts, notably Σ Allis would assist the national effort to Chalmers, at Milwaukee, which is produce food. He had gold orchid holding orders for $10,000,000 and at In the first of a series of articles on conditions inside Ger-plants of great value, and a number International Harvester, Chicago, many Wallace Deuel, who has just returned to the United States been resold to America, which which has a contract for $10.000,000, after six years in Berlin as correspondent of the "Chicago Dally try.
produced American currency for this News," describes the feeling of hopelessness which he found in
The
National Labour Relations Hiller's Reich.
Agreed To Settlement Board found International Harvester "It is truc," he writes, "that Germany has risen again, but brought to their notice, defendants Fix plants, Freluding those at Chicago As soon as the true facts were duilty of unfair labour practices at the price in wear and tear of the people's nerves has been appall-indicated their willingness
and Rork Falls (1), where strikes ing, and millions of Germans have ceased to believe, if they ever
everything in their power to avert were holding up defence production. did, that it is possible to hope for rewards which would be worth
the consequences of the
The board directed the mistake into
the company to the price.
which they had unwittingly fallen,
interfering with employees "The German people are tired heard one lorry full of men singing settlement on terms which involved
Mr Sidney as few people in the world have All the others sal in silence. ever been tired without break-the sidewalks did not even turn their cerning itself with the interests of def
"And nine-tenths of the people on
a of money which lender, who is over to a charity con- Knudsen
sen of the Office
for Pro- ing down. In a single genera-heads to watel: the troops. I have
duction Management-the
supreme tion they have gone through a never heard a spontaneous cheer for
defence commission-sald that the children who suffered in Air roids.
Mr G. O. Slade, for
defence labour situation is defendants, the major war, a starvation block passing troops except when normal said they desired to express their satisfactory, and that he saw ho ade and a catastrophic defeat. Parades were held.
sincere regret to the Duke.
reason for restrictive legislation. They have had two revolutions.
• Berliners Not Happy.
Mr Justice Wrottestcy allowed ther
There Was never a better spirit of They have had their currency "I was in two of the
record in the case to be withdrawn.
co-operation in industry than at pre- principal
sent. wiped out altogether once and have streets in Berlin for the first half- been seriously threatened with the hour after the news became known same fate again.
that France had asked for terms., At "They've had the same exhaustingust, I thought, I should see
normal human reaction. It was,
some
and disillusioning experiences of de-after all, one of the greatest military pression as the rest of the world has had, and now they have entered on n
triumphs of all times. new war.
All Except The Lost
"But there was no reaction to be scen, none at all. The Berliners looked neither Jubilant nor happy "They are winning all the battlesnor oven relieved. They looked just In the new war, it is true. But they the same as they had looked for more won all the bailles in the last war. ihan six years. too--all. except the
TAME
have never forgotten it.
They Just looked they tired, The second world war is a war without cheers as far as Ger-
Tho
Crippled On Way To Wedding
"Until the last battle in this wat many is concerned." has been fought and won it will be hard for millions of Germans to be- llevo wii be won at all. And, be- sides, unless that Inst battle is fought and won soon enough what good will victory be to the Germans? longer the war lasts the more the
Tom Reader, aged 54, of Mulier Germans will wonder if it is worth road, Enstile, Wits, was to have fighting,
attended his daughter's wedding on "Scores of times
a recent Saturday, have seen Instead he was taken to hospital columns of motorised troops pouring with both
feet through Berlin and half a dozen
severed. He fell in front of an other cities on their way to the front, train at Chippenham. first towards Poland and latter to-
Silent Men
oncoming
While receiving first' ald he made.
wards
the West But among all no complaint, but merely asked for these columns I have only seen and a cigarette.
a
the
to du
cease
Unfair Practices
of
unions.
the Labour
The Duke had therefore agreed to engaged
in "ATAN with Mr W.
hent of cur
very
Mr E R. Stettinius, a member of the National Defence Council, has
THEY MEASURE asked manufacturers to economise In
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show no nervousness in the face of an enemy, become nervous in examination room!
na
ziuc, which is scarce, so that more will be available for the manufacture of
cartridges.
The Secretary for the Navy, Col. Frank Knox, denied that the Navy has established a peacelime 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 "We take allowances for that.nounced that 50,000 of the avall- Hut one thing the professura afable 105,000 reserve officers will be Cambridge have not yet been able on active duty by June,
Leadership?
Mr
tu discover is a test of leadership, President Roosevelt has issued an
"We can tell, within a small mar- executive stin of error, whether
order a man is Director
authorising 11:m practical, slow, quick, reliable, sin Charence Dykstra, to prescribe work
of Conscription, dash, nervous, stearty or mathema- fical, but nothing yet known to the
national importance for con psychologists will tell us whether he
scientious objectors. The policy w possesses the ability to lend other be under the direction of men and to gain their respect and organisations, supervised by the confidence,"
Draft Board.
The tests. I have described are n kindergarten compared with some I have seen which are set to members of the Royal Armoured Corps. -
SATURDAY:
The New Infantry.
of
will
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 is esilmated that about 6,000 objectors have' registered.
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