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Show Censor Irked By Any Old Facts ' Discussing censorship of gov ' ernment reports, the Wall Street ; Journal has revealed that in 19.10 ' it was called on the carpet for pub- lishing information printed in the ' Encyclopedia Britannica. A reported had been assigned ' to write an article on armo plate 1 ! When officials said the data he wanted were military secrets, he : found the information in the' en- cyclopedia. The article was pub- lished. I "It was only with difficulty ' that we extricated ourselves from 1 the position of having shaken the ' security of the country," the news- '; paper recalled: "At one point ve f were told that it was dangerous to even call attention to what was ! in the encyclopedia. |