Word: morrisonism
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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...
Home Secretary Herbert Morrison, who threatened fortnight ago to gag the London Daily Mirror's caustic criticism of the Government (TIME, March 30), instead of backing down under the fierce drubbing which was administered to him by virtually the entire British press and a good part of the House of Commons, returned to the attack, under an even fiercer drubbing...
...House, Home Secretary Herbert Morrison accused London's rambunctious Mirror of publishing "scurrilous misrepresentations, distorted and exaggerated statements and irresponsible generalizations . . . tending to undermine the Army and depress the whole population. . . ." Hitherto Britain's censorship has been confined to the suppression of information that might be of value to the enemy. But there is a section of the Defense Regulations (passed in the summer of 1940, when Britain was in imminent danger of invasion) permitting the Government to suppress a paper that undermines the war effort. The Home Secretary talked of suppressing the Mirror...
...occasion of Morrison's wrath was an innocuous-looking cartoon whose bite was in its caption, "The price of petrol has been increased by one penny" (implying that British seamen were risking their lives to fatten the big corporations). As supporting evidence for his charge, Morrison quoted a paragraph from a Mirror editorial: "The accepted tip for Army leadership would, in plain words, be this: All who aspire to mislead the other in war should be brass-buttoned boneheads, socially prejudiced, arrogant and fussy. A tendency to heart disease, apoplexy, diabetes and high blood pressure is desirable...
...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...