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...Press. In the House of Commons, following Home Secretary Herbert Morrison's threat last fortnight to suppress the Daily Mirror, the two sides clashed in a full-dress debate over freedom of the press. Despite the recent Cabinet shakeup, the Churchill Government is still more Right than Left. But the press, moving steadily to the Left, week by week has become more outspoken in its criticism of the Government. When Churchill saw that the Government's position was slipping further, he ordered Morrison to crack down. Leftists and countless other Britons had the horrible recollection that suppression...
...Last Sunday 50,000 Britons jammed Trafalgar Square to hear the Daily Mirror's Cassandra and eleven others plead for a second front in 1942. Afterward they contributed $10,000 to a second-front propaganda fund...
...like the Daily Mirror. I never have liked it. I do not like that form of journalism at all. . . . I don't find it necessary to indulge in that form of pornography...
Some comment in the House supported the Home Minister. One Member even asked whether the Mirror was partly owned by William Randolph Hearst. (Since Lord Rothermere, brother of Lord Northcliffe, gave up control in 1931, the Mirror's ownership has not been a matter of public record, but tall, energetic Cecil Harmsworth King, nephew of Lord Northcliffe, is generally supposed to control it. Hearst...
...What is the Government so worried about?" was the typical public reaction. The Telegraph (which for some months has succeeded the Times as Tory spokesman) said that the Mirror's cartoon and Cassandra's jobs "come under the head of irresponsible wrecking of morale." But the rest of the British press, from the Conservative Times to the Laborite Herald, sided with the Mirror against Morrison...