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V/ARTILu] CUNSORSHIP PL'.N DISAPPROVED
President Roosevelt has disapproved an Army-Navy proposal for a war-time censorship, Stephen T. Early, ’^liite House secretary, told a press conference today. The disapproval, I.Ir, Early said, v/as esr.pressed some time ago to a plan v;hich would not reqeiire legislative sanction and which would be invoked only if this country became actually involved in war.
At the same time, the secretary said he had never heard of the reported draft of censorship legislation whicii is supposed to be before the Chief Executive on recommendation of the V/ar and Navy Departments ,
''I don't know the source of that report, Plr, Early said,
'•'but I don't believe it, I never heard of any bill presented for approval of the President,
"I 'know that some time ago he disapproved an Army-Navy plan, but that was one that did not call for legislation and v\fas for use in v/ar time only,”
Plans for Navy censorship on all outgoing communications from the United States, to be Imposed as soon as the necessary legis¬ lation is enacted, vi/ere disclosed sometime ago in a House Appropria¬ tions Committee report.
The Navy sought ,)796,500 to establish the necessary offices, the largest of which would be in New York, but the committee rejected the item pending the passage of enabling legislation v/hioh a Navy spokesman said the Justice Department was preparing with President Roosevelt's approval.
The proposed censorship presumably v/ould cover commercial wireless messages as well as cables. Although the testimony did nob refer specifically to wireless messages, reference v;as made to an ''international censorship on outgoing cormnunications ,”
At the time Hr, Early said.* ”1 can't imagine that it is anything more than a precautionary move to apply the censorship that the Army and Navy do and alv/ays use when certain eventualities take place
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Jarfles P, Buckley, president of Philco, is one of fifteen executives of industries with large plants chosen by O.P.Ii, to con¬ sult with fifteen leaders of labor for a conference on. common prob¬ lems, the first of which v;lll be the diversion of idle silk v;orkers into other industries.
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