The Archive · 1941

Wisdom "ge Weeklies

THE NORTH-CHINA DAILY NEW:

Censure for Genser. ity, and so for without I American pilots steer great Clipper planes across the Atlantic to Lisbon, writes Critic in the "New Statesman and Nation." They make the crossing something under two days. Yet between posting of a letter in New York or Baltimore and its delivery in London there may now elapse no- less than six weeks? the usual interval is four weeks. I have before me a bundle of envelopes which establish this disgraceful record. The blame, it is apparent, falls on the censor. Letters arrive in the wrong which suggests that some censors clear piles faster than others. Apparently the letters from America in the German language are fairly business-like: these letters get through in a fortnight. But for this sorry service the Postmaster-General has 1 the effrontery to charge 2s. 6d. per ounce.

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