The Press: Censorship? No & Yes

Is any form of press censorship needed now? From two members of Harry Truman's Cabinet, newsmen got two answers last week.

In Boston, Attorney General Howard McGrath told newsmen: "Newspapers enjoying unlimited freedom from Government interference can be, have been and are, some of them, vile and dishonorable: beyond all understanding . . . [But] under this Administration there will be no implied, no disguised, no direct and no indirect censorship . . . even if the tiny group of malcontents who traduce your Government from day to day were to increase and intensify their output twenty fold."

But in Columbus, Ohio, Secretary...

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