The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-06-15

in abbng at Hitler for withholding the news of Ger man setbacks from the German people.
 The result of this kind of news policy the part of the War Department is twofold. First, it results in wshfu thinking on the part of many American citizens In fact it seems that sorshp organization is against anything that might be used to call these wishful thinkers back into ality where they be of some good in the fight to win this
 Secondly and this is the most serious result the American people finding it little tougher each month to believe everything that is announced from Washington, D. c.
 The American people are entitled to know the truth unless the truth will give aid and comfort to the enemy. and even then, should be withheld only when it is known that the enemy has no facts of the case.
 The people fighting this They en- titled to swift and complete information. They must have that information if they going to fight this war in all seriousness
 Any form of information control that has any other purpose than the already mentioned-any other object such the protection of civilian nor ae-will in the end defeat its purpose. The American people are an enlightened people. We fear nothing than the dark
 When the Navy Department denied the Jap
 
 over Japanese broadcast and then admitted that weather conditions kept our forces from knowing actly what happening, all who had heard the Jap claim from Tokyo realized that the Jap nouncer had actually spoken the truth.
 When ships sunk in the Java Sea battle the Japs also claimed that we mad suffered defeat We heard, at that time, only of one naval action-a victory for side.
 Is it actually possible that our government is try ing to create here a greater confidence in a Tokyo broadcast than in own?
 We are skdding close to that very danger
 Our greatest difficulty right now is that in most instances we don't know exactly what we don't know anything about But quite often leaks spring out We know that more has happened in the Alaska situ- ation than we have been told.
 We're beginning to tire of fighting anony nous war We want the truth. We want something genuine on which to build civilian morale-not gen. erazations and things like salvage and production drives
 The best announcement we have yet in this from the standpoint of truthfuness and letting us know where stand is:
 T claim we got hell of a beating. We got run out of Burma think we ought to find out what caused it, go back and retake it.
 That came from Lieut. Gen. Joseph w. Stilwell when he was interviewed in New Delhi General Buckner could give us whale of story on the situation in Alaska We think he would like to. But his hands tied by General Dewitt in San Francisco from where most Alaska must new originate, and DeWtts hands tied by Wash ington. D. c.
 What need more correspondents in the field, some correspondents in Alaska who can get their information passed by commanders in the field of action
 The little man-who represents totalitarian cen- sorshp-has been riding back and forth on the car- rage of this typewriter too alarmed long. Associated Press dispatch from Edinburgh Scot land:
 British Army commanders of the home forces have been instructed to stop the of strong language.
 Every day, the United States consumes more than 45000 bales of cotton That's enough to boil weevil