The Archive · 1941

The Censor Has His Day

No Use to Protest if Letters Opened

A large proportion of the complaint calls directed from the main New York post office to ihe foreign mail division concerns censorship. It apnea! to one authority, that people in this country do not Lke to have their lo intercepted, and particularly resent this practice when their mail originates in another neutral country, says the "New York Timex We can only tell them," this authority explained, "that it is the privilege of a Bej: gerent io censor all mail to, or passing through, that country."

Mail coming to the United States from the South American countries. particularly those on the eastern coast of that continent, is in that category. Whether brought by boat it is usually inspected at Port-of-Spain, T All Pan-American strato-clippers going north s.op there. They accumulate the mail forwarded to express stops by local planes, starting to pick up pouches at the route's southernmost point, Buenos Aires. Effective since March 1, Porto Alegre, Brazil, is the next port of call. followed by Rio de Janeiro, Barreiras and Belém, all in Brazil. After stops at Portof-Spain and San Juan, Puerto Rice, the plane arrives at Miami.

Owing to the inspection by censors in Trinidad, mail scarcely ever leaves by the same plane on which it arrives, although there is an over night stop there. The delay is not great. however, because three planes a week pass through going north To avoid inspection by the Britis from Argentina is directed to Córdoba, Valparaiso and north by way of the western

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