Detroit evening times., 1945-07-04
PAUL
NlALLON
The News

WASHINGTON, July 3-The
" Office of Censorship has
succeeded in keeping out of the
American preSs-and off the
airwaveS since April p any
speculation on Russia Joining us
as an ally IN the war with
Japan,
An official directive 10 the
newspapers was made public at
that time. saying this move was
inspired by our army and navy
officials for military reasons. A
second confidential directive was
sent around to some of the press
and radio authorities few days
later quoting the chiefs OF staff,
but this was not made public,
and the military reasons were
not made clear.
In the normal course of my
business, / wrote and dispatched
a column for publication last
May %. concerning the an
nouncements that lend-leaser
Crowley had been overruled on
cessation of lend-lease TO Rus
Sla.
THERE was no military in
formation in that column,
or comments about any military
situation, nothing about ship
movements, for instance. In
fact the reason il stated for the
public change of administration
policy was not news TO my
readers, as / had reported last
February 10 that Messrs.
Roosevelt r and Stain had
reached an agreement at Yalta
for RuSSia-te cooperate with as
as an ally in the Pacific-Say-
ing this was what we won at
the conference. The February
10 column was not censored.
The later column was killed
by the Office of Censorship
after it was in the hands of edi-
tors, and on The ground that II
came within the military ban.
NOV comes Mr.. Crowley him.
~ self saying the same thing
officially IN precisely the same
connection. His June f3 con-
gresSional testimony has been
made public, with these quotes
from him:
"The possibility of Russia's
entry into the war against
-JapaH-aets-to-pin duwn-in
northern Manchuria large num-
bers of japanese troops"
Thus, he has officially an
nounced what was censored
about his own lend-leaSe policy
when l wrote it.
But far more striking than
this. the Office of Censorship
passed this week story in a
foreign letter of a weekly buSi-
ness letter service saying pre-
cisely what l sald-and Some-
thing additional in substantial
ton. This letter, dated June 26,
tells the world there must
have been an agreement at
Yalta for a Russian declaration
of war upon Japan.
Indeed, the letter says that
Harry Hopkins, the aide of Mr..
Roosevelt at Yalta, when he
discovered Crowley'S cessation
of lend-lease TO Russia, rushed
over to the White House and
told Truman about RooSevelts
agreement with Stain, where
upon Truman Immediately re-
Versed Crowley and reinstituted
lend-lease to Russia. via ST.
IBERIA. Censorship passed these
statements, as l say.
NOW censorship cannot de-
y fend its former censorship
of my column in the fact of its
later actions. AS you can read
lily see, | am offering the cen.
Sored facts again 10 you today.
l invite any publisher who
wishes. to run the whole CEN
sored story of May %, although
this current column is a full
accounting of my pre- Q s
against the unwarranted action,
in order TO let the people know
the facts.
l offer only this additional
comment:
For the weeks. months and
years, when a most important
pending question was our insti-
tuition of a second 'front.' in
Europe, there was no censor
ship on that topic, except on
the time and place. That was
a valid military censorship. In
deed. what Russia called a
second front Git was our fourth
front. actually was more than
discussed.
Every possible news-publicity
pressure was exerted upon us
particularly by sharp Russian
newspaper comments on our
delay and cauStic references 10
our military leaders were pub
lShcd in our press, on the air
everywhere. frequently quot