Friday, April 16, 2010

Current Events April 16, 1942; VICHY CRISIS MOUNTS, NAZIS MAY POSSESS FRENCH FLEET ;


The Portsmouth Herald
PORTSMOUTH, N. H., THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 16, 1942.
U. S.--VICHY CRISIS MOUNTS
See Nazis In Possession Of French Fleet Soon
Government
(By The Associated Press)
The Washington-Vichy crisis
mounted sharply today
amid general expectations
that France would proclaim
her solidarity with Germany
and that Adolf Hitler might
soon get his hands on the
French fleet.
U. S. consular officials
urged all Americans to leave
unoccupied France as soon
as possible.-----


Explains Newspaper
Censorship To Editors
Director Price Gives Reasons
Why Certain News Must Be
Withheld From The Readers
Why newspapers are asked not to print certain stories
that are common gossip to their readers in a community was
explained to American Newspaper Editors at conferences
held in Washington this week and at 20th annual meeting
of American Newspaper Editors which is being held in
New York this week.
Director of Censorship Byron.,,
Price told editors that it was recognized
that American newspapers
constituted one of the greatest fact
finding organizations in the world.
While Axis agents may forward to
their governments various rumors,
these governments never trust rumor
the way they will a newspaper----

US Bombers Hit islands
From Hidden Air Base
By C. YATES McDANIEL
United States Army Headquarters in Australia, April
16 (AP)—Brig. Gen. Ralph Royce, volunteer leader of the
bomber squadron which delivered the United States' first
long distance smash in the Philippines, disclosed today that
the raiders used a base hidden in the islands, protected by
fighter planes; and provisioned it for future use.----

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