EDITORS AND THE ARMY S your issue of April 3rd
" Janus " alludes to the calling up for
military service of a newspaper editor, and goes on to say : "There was, I believe, some oversight about applying for . . . reservation, but that, of course, could be put right in Whitehall in two minutes."
This implies that a bewspaper editor should be, if not above the law, at any rate above the regulations set up by the law. Surely " Janus " will agree that a newspaper editor should suffer for oversight to the same extent as other citizens; or, conversely, that all citizens should have their oversights put right in Whitehall in two minutes if that privilege be granted at all.—! am, Sir, your obedient servant, ["janus " writes: It is not a question of the personal position of this or any other editor, but of what the Government's policy towards news- papers is. If, as stated, it is that they should be enabled to carry on with reduced staffs and reduced paper supplies, then clearly editors, of all people, must not be conscripted for the army, and if a calling-up notice is sent to one of them it should be cancelled. There may be a difference of opinion about the policy, but, given the policy, the conclusion I have outlined necessarily follows.]
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