The U.S. press last week got an official censor and the first glimmerings of how U.S. wartime censorship is meant to work.
The censor, appointed by Presidential executive order: 50-year-old Hoosier-born Byron Price, competent executive news editor of Associated Press. Because the press had long expected a New Deal zealot as censor, its first reaction to the Price appointment was one of relief.
Censor Price conceives of his job as involving four main duties: 1) peripheral censorship (outgoing news dispatches, cables, radio, letters); 2) withholding at the source military secrets valuable to the enemy; 3) use of the Espionage Act to prevent publication...