The Press: Censorship In Tokyo?

The working press has never known quite where it stood with General Douglas MacArthur. Zealous public relations officers, by fending off reporters in his Far East Command, have kept the press from finding out. At his rare press conferences, MacArthur has talked freely; between times, his public relations officers have acted on the theory that no news but good news should be written about MacArthur.

Last week, the Tokyo Headquarters Press Corps was angered and surprised by a new shift in "policy." First sign of a change came when the London Daily Herald's Hugh Hessell Tiltman, who had...

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