New York Herald Tribune's Tokyo correspondent, Wilfrid Fleisher, who is also managing editor of Japan's best English-language newspaper, Japan Advertiser, likes to tell about playing catch-as-catch-can with Japanese censors. When he found that Japanese could tag him whenever he wrote things down, but lagged far behind when he spoke English, he began telephoning his stories to the Tribune.
He says he slipped one over on the bewildered censors, who tapped his wires and took his conversations down on records, but were never quite quick enough to catch him in the act of spilling beans. Finally they told him: "So sorry. Weather...
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