Evening star., 1949-06-05


s~ws s4spp2irs ~ sssssuEnsnt
ASracAes as zaAA tie e$seaAl
Igeney ReeeEsls Aassza0Aa and
Easai4sa eyaAaeAass es sxwA. eeAHaeSa
II Russia. have hx~a ~tAEznnc
. tssai s.ss wcyGk Ass rzsa intel
ls1aae NswkSapwTa EsAGAEzssea
laa radio stations Ia tsse Hcsa<t
.nlcn are under government cog-
.<ua. Travel cs seseagn e<xTv~
u restricted as IN
several yxn curtain eo4ntgses-
TAO American correspondents
have been expelled fFan tAs
soY les unaxra Mas<eS aeSsAg~i.
md tlssy dsaAed. that thsy had
Engaged In spSsne
POLAND fogxtEn essTespossa-
rnts Ia Poland ate tree 10 50
wsaegw they please and wyits With
out censorship. bai The Polish
Press Is stall censored The set-
rgnneat SAys The native nsss-
papers mQKa be censored Shils
the country IL nehilng It's way
back 10 recovery from SsaespTead
and dislneAtiena eaf.
ma tlse var
As for foreign easrvspondcata.
lhc government says IL Ia inter
rssed only that they tsii the truth.
HUNGARY. BULGARIA and
ROMAStA--Few foreign eHTv-
spondentx have been visiting
Hungary recently. but thsy we're
able 10 set their dispatches cut,
However. dispatches arpeATtns In
foreign newspapers are pr0gnrtly
reported back BY hungarian rep.
abroad. and the ecS-
can be caisd 10 ae-
count II TIE government ~ikhes
10 do 90, Hungarian nationals
werking for foreign newspapers Or
agencies are suayeet 10 sossTu-
lncnt pressure. lest they os de-
al spies, 30 are Bull
garian nationals wogking In SOFIA
As representatives o! foreign Agen-
cies.
The last opposition party IN
Hunsary's Parliament has bern
lquidAted. and ita paper
ceased 10 exist. Hungarian news
papers rarely use dispatches from
Western news agencies Bulgarian
and RdknAnlan papers likewise are
most careful what thsy print
cZEcHosLOvAKIA -- Mo op-
position newspaper. magazine ar
radio has operated in this eoaln-
try since the Communist putseE
In February, ls4s.
Aecreditation Of foreign cor
have become more
difyicult since the Job waA turned
over 10 the Foreisn Ministry Last
February, Newspapers are re-
stricted to one permanent cor
respondent~-litils change from
the prevailing s!tuatior-~and ness
agencies 10 two II usually takes
at least ak months for q cot
respondents visa application 10
be approved.
Czech newspapers have dlmin-
lahed their attacks on Western
Journalists In the country. Nov
ever. they still attack the psess
Of Britain and the United States.
YU0O9i-AVfA--Ths press ta
government nt-eontrolled ard pub
lished no opposition news For
eign correspondents are free 10
nie whatever news they And. but
their activities are restricted by
lack of access 10 news sources.
A correspondent can be expelled
for false and tendsntioua report
Ing." The Official agency TAnIus
has o monopoly on rewH dis1lbe-
ton within the country
FTNL.AND-A large degree of
press freedom still exista. despits
the country's proximity 10 Russia
and 10 limitations under The Pin
nish-sovist peace treaty. FofsaEn
correspondents are not restricted.
Middle East
ISRAEL -~ Censorship started
during the Palestine var Ia cors-
tinuing into the aFmistios period.
which the state regards as stili
zhoyt Of peace. Tbs censorship 70
described by the government %
one OF military security. In aetuai
practice II goes into the field of
national security" on srEne non
military matters. Recently an As
sociatsd Press story mentioned
speculation On desaiuatscn Of
Israeli money. A paragraph was
detected By censorship, but later
restored.
EOYpT-MaYtlai Law. imposed
over q year ago stssn Egypssan
troops marched into Palestine, re-
mains In effect. requiring both
press and mail censorship. A nsw
regulation removed eensors frosa
osnces but requires
each paper 90 serd ssx copies Of
every edition 10 the censwtng
authorities ai least half hour
before general distrin1tion and
xAles. Penalties for violation of
this regulation ere euphscstson 81
tse edition and q month 10 o year
In taii for the oTendirg editor.
Oussoang dispatches and tnccfn-
!ng foreign news are censored ss
the cable and radio ef1ceaN Bamiiar
conditions prevail 10 several ctfasT
Of tae Arab ARIA.
mAN~-OfacaaIa exercise o cen
scrsalp which Ia nsver admitted.
tsevsn nswxnen we're taiied for
creating an atmosphere which
made u posxsbls fer sn afssnps
cn the sasata's life Tfsg wsFs
pardnsasd lated by ths shah.
TUHKEY--F0TNagn e0greHpos6s
rnts ere not ressxscted. Tn<ar dis
patches ere not censored TIE
domestic press 10 seneTAi1y free.
but o paper can be p&Erasaaas6 u
nf haymang kas 8OTexn-
reus's dignity.
r~ntrsi Asia