The Archive · 1937

By SAPAJOU

liminary campaign designed. to procure justification of Italy's cause against Abyssinia is by some to be Tegaréed as merely the legitimate exercise of diplomatic ingenuity, even if it id amount to the dis semination of untruth, but if 0 ponents make use of similar methods no reproach too severe can possibly be levelled against them. Nazi, Fascist and Communist must in these days take the news as they find it. All of them seek to control the press, in ways which are repugnant t5 many other nationalities, fand there is, in the letters on the subject' which have been published in the correspondence columns of! this journal, an indication that the writers would like'to have the same restrictions placed upon the Press whole. "The world would soon present a sorry spectacle it freedom of speech and Press were complete ly denied it, and what the. respondents appear to forget is that is that very same freedom which enables them to find expression of their views in the very medium which they are so anxious to control, But then, of course, they, and they only, know what truth realty i,

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