Throttling News

To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

As a former editor of the Stars and Stripes in Italy, it interests me greatly to see that Generals are not the only people who wish to throttle news and newspaper men and women.

In Italy the editors had a choice of conforming to Gen. John C. H. (Courthouse) Lee or being sent up to Trieste on guard duty. However, even the General had to bow to public opinion when news of this throttling came out.

There will always be a group of people who are vested with some slight bit of authority who are afraid of the truth, who are afraid of criticism. The threat to your Radcliffe reporter is nothing new. Nor is your striking back with you best weapon of publicity anything new. But what all this does show is that no newspaper, run on the principles taught by democracy, can be anything if it is not allowed to get at the truth and print it.

There will always be Generals and Miss So and So's with thei rinflated sense of authority. Let's hope there will always be newspapers like yourselves to battle them. Richard Gold 2L