To "prevent a recurrence" of such "regrettable confusions" as Reuters' beat on the Cairo Conference, the Tass's ditto on Teheran, Franklin Roosevelt announced a new policy.
He praised the U.S. press for not jump ing the gun, then to War Secretary Stimson, Navy Secretary Knox, OWI Boss Elmer Davis be said: Hereafter no war information "having a security value" shall be issued in advance, on a hold-for-i'elease basis; such news will be available for printing or broadcast the moment it is issued.
The possibility of future news "confusions" had not been eliminated, for the...
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