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Show Paucity of Truthful News Backfires On Censors in European Nations I IT AMOVMU hH European censorship la backfiring back-firing on Itself. Newtpapera and the people in Franco and Britain complain' of the lack of fully truthful news and now the censors' own governments gov-ernments criticize the blue-pencil men both for what la published and what la withheld. The latest storm over censorship censor-ship Is In France, where Premier Edouard Daladler temporarily settled the argument by . lifting home censorship on political discussions dis-cussions In French newspapers. In Britain there has been a aeries of public plaints which the government is trying to obviate by changing censors. Newspapers so far have failed to record improvement. im-provement. Foreign correspondents, especially espe-cially those sending news to the United States, still suffer from delays, mietakea and arbitrary decisions of censors. Here Is what Uw various countries coun-tries are doing to control news: Germany no censorship on established es-tablished correspondents such aa thoae of the Associated Press. Correspondents art responsible for the truth and Impartiality of of the news they send. Britain and France all newt Is censored whether sent by telephone, tele-phone, cable, wireless or mall. Finland censorship la similar to that In Britain and France, but more flexible in that censors work more closely with foreign newspaper, men. U. 8. S. R. Soviet Russia abolished abol-ished censorship May 4, 1939,' but reimposed It more severely trtan ever December 29, 1939. Spain tight censorship on news sent abroad, but a lighter one, something on the "honor" system, on Spanish papers. , Italy no censorship on telephone, tele-phone, whichj foreign correspondents correspon-dents generally use, but correspondents corre-spondents are responsible for the newt they send, as In Germany. Holland and Switzerland censorship on Important military mili-tary and "alarmist" news, particularly partic-ularly anything that might reflect re-flect on their neutrality. Other neutrals, such as Hungary, Hun-gary, Rumania, Jugoslavia and Portugal, supervise strictly their native newspapers, but give foreign for-eign correspondents full freedom free-dom except In the rare cases when some of them may "Interrupt" "Inter-rupt" all communications temporarily tem-porarily when there la a political assassination or something of that nature. Such measures have little effect. Newspapers In Germany and France are under strict censorship. censor-ship. British newspapers operate under a voluntary censorship, but recently the chief censor said he had filed complaints against some of them and there might -be prosecutions. " " |