The Press: Bowdlerized TIME?

Should U.S. news be bowdlerized before it is shipped to Americans and the English-speaking people of Latin America? A minor tempest over that question began to blow up last week. The occasion was TIME'S Air-Express edition and, most particularly, what TIME said June 9 about the work of the Rockefeller Committee.

Broadminded, the Director of the Council of National Defense News Section took his stand in favor of letting TIME'S subscribers south of the Rio Grande get truth instead of propaganda. "My own individual judgment is that one of our greatest propaganda assets is an ability to 'take it' on the propaganda...

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