Jackson Citizen Patriot · Jackson, Michigan · 13 May 1948

CP-1948-033

Military Censors Hampering News Coverage in Palestine

Associated Press, London

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“London (AP)-Military censorship in some areas is hampering news coverage of the Arab-Jewish war for Palestine. An Associated Press survey shows censorship to be strictest in Syria and Lebanon, where all foreign correspondents’ dispatches must pass through the hands of censors.

In Palestine Haganah, the Jewish defense force, censors all Jewish papers, paying most attention to reports of military operations but also watching for political developments. The only instances of Haganah censorship of foreign correspondents’ dispatches have been on stories the correspondents agreed to submit before starting on field or operational trips with Haganah forces.

Associated Press correspondents have submitted several such stories and so far Haganah censors have made no changes or deletions. AP correspondents filing from Amman, chapital of Trans-Jordan, have been free to cable their stories without interference, but have been threatened repeatedly with expulsion if they write ‘unfavorably’ about the government.

There is no censorship of stories cabled from Egypt, but films must be developed before being sent aboard. British censorship of the Palestine press, practiced to some degree since before World war II, ended April 30. It was stiffened considerably during the past year to protect British forces and to ban publication of Jewish-Arab news deemed likely to lead to violence.”

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A news agency auditing the censorship around it, the day before the declaration. The spellings “chapital” and “aboard” are the paper’s.

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The same copy, in 2 other papers

• Palestine War Coverage Hurt By CensorshipSan Francisco ChronicleSan Francisco, California11 May 1948CP-1948-130
• Arab Censorship Strictest In Palestine War NewsThe OregonianPortland, Oregon11 May 1948CP-1948-131

Their text and this one are nearly identical. Found by comparing transcriptions, not by reading them side by side, so this establishes that the text overlaps and not that these papers ran the same dispatch. How this was done.