Saturday 8 September 2018

Hungry?

A Scottish journalist complains about censorship, 1/7/40:
 "A French journalist had to write columns of cheerful and boot-licking drivel [to get passed by the censor]... If he had given a gruesome account in four columns of how the starving Germans had started eating babies, the censorship would have passed it, though it would not have passed the slightest reference to the shortage of sugar in Paris..."
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