CO129-582-10 Censorship and control of the press 25-7-1939 - 16-8-1939 — Page 2

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1. Gov. Wil. 210 Conf. 28.7;392 (States action arssoned for 2

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Censorship of newspaper posters & reqedo

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evering, not having been originally in color, Thaving bee. retioned for attachment of the Straits Press-restriction. file. H.K. press law is summarised in the meno below (6) on that file, but the summary excludes the Emergency Regins of 1938, which provide for censorship of Chinese prints.

The matter as the only one, should not be Sustriand it. T 4.2. Daily Press (which I think is "British owned) was among

Them.

Undesirable London newspaper posters have recently. been the subject of questione rarewers in Parliament & corres. in The Times, but that was in regard to misleading or mendacions sensationalism, not to

political opinions.

legt he can

If the example the Gov. gives is the

find, it is not a very impressive one with which to justify the measures The broposes. Although it happens to coincide wiin The propaganda put out by Dr. Goebbels it also coincides with the published spontaneous views of the Shanghai Cham- ber of Commore & much of the American Press The Tokyo agreement. It is not suggested that the Jap-owned paper was an offender in

The proposed restrictions being aptar- ently aimed at English posters only (! Think Chinese prints are already, controlled) relevant to ask who are the English- reading public whose loyalty reconfidence are undermined by then.

it is

If the power the Gov, wants to take can be justified

on grounds of public

order rsecurity, it is a

have in redove rule

useful

one to

ruse very sparingly, but

it seems to me that an

it instiped

outson against it,

on the burdence in this tel.

world not only be well-founded but indicate to the foreign & British population

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