Close Check on Grant of Advertising Contracts Amsterdam, Oct. 27.
Working on the principle that advertisements are the life's blood of unsubsidized newspapers, the German Propaganda Ministry was reported today to have formed a central body which will control at. advertisements given the press abroad by German firms.
Thus the grant of fat advertising contracts could be made dependent on the newspapers' adoption of favourable policies of news presentation. Since it would control huge sums of money, the central body would be in a strong position to guide the policies of newspapers out for steady income from German advertisements, it was pointed out—aves 0
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