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Ontario Scrapbook Hansard, 19 Feb 1942, p. 1

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Ffibmucg \o Nee miiestmciy __2222zzzzzae i2 Heph ' epburn Protests Censors 'T e ,on 1 * < * J ampering With His Mail Describing Government censor--,;I might say that at a subsequent ship as "that Ottawa Gestapo," Pre--| meeting Mr. Wendell Willkie will mier Hepburn rose before the orders| be initiated, and I hope to receive of the day in the Legislature yes--|an invitation to attend. I am giving terday to voice an emphatic pro--| this information so that there will test against the action of the Do--|be no need to open my mail." minion authorities in "lflmp"ling"'i The Premier introduced the sub-- with his personal mail. \|jJect by referring to an editorial in The Premier said a letter address--| The Globe and Mail of Wednesday ed to him from the Saints and Sin-- in which such censorship was con-- ners Club in New York had been|demned as indefensible. Mr. Hep-- opened by the censors, \burn said that mail addressed to "It was an invitation to attend | Mr. Hanson and Dr. Bruce had been the next meeting of the club, at 'nponod by the censors, and scored which time that great Canadian, Air |the disclosure made in the House Marshal Eilly Bishop, is to be ini--|of Commons by the Postmaster--Gen-- tiated." said Premier Hepburn. "For |eral that extracts from the letters the benefit of the Ottawa Gestapo lhad been passed on to third parties.

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