Clergy, it appears, are being warned that parish magazines are
something which concern the censor, and one of them suggests that he and his brethren are wondering whether they will soon be having to submit the drafts of their Sunday sermons. As a matter of fact, the censor's interest in parish magazines is necessary and justifiable, for they are just the places where some casual and apparently unimportant reference to a parishioner at the front or to anti-aircraft measures in the parish may to a skilled eye convey informa- tion of material value—to the enemy. Incidentally, the official circular on the subject contains a curious paragraph which presumably means something other than what it says: " As you are aware, censorship:in this country remains on a voluntary basis, but is subject to serious penalties for infringement of defence notices."
Official English is something you can't teach ; it's a gift. * * * *
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