The Press: Censorship--Yes

From Chungking, too, there was exciting news of relaxed censorship. But the excitement proved to be all one man's —and he was all wrong.

The one man was ferret-eyed Henry J. Taylor, Scripps-Howard's hopabout journalist who rarely stays in any one country long enough for a second breath, or a second thought. Within 48 hours of reaching Chungking, he had seen Chiang Kai-shek and was breathlessly cabling home: "Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, in an exclusive interview today, promised to ease Chinese censorship regulations on news going to the United States. ... I told him that...

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