22 MARCH 1940, Page 15

An example of unintelligent censorship was furnished this week by

the treatment accorded to the reports sent home by British correspondents in Paris regarding the effect upon French opinion of the Finnish capitulation. The French public (which had not been rightly informed in advance of the difficulties inherent in any intervention in Finland) was completely winded by this disaster. British opinion (having been more correctly apprised of the situation) was shocked but not horrified. It was important that the British public should be told that the French public had taken the incident more tragically than we had at home. But the French censors prevented that important information being conveyed across the Channel.