after that story and went out of my way to explain my personal position as an American broadcaster—that I had been assigned to give the news from Germany, that official statements such as the denial that a German submarine had torpedoed the Athenia were part of that news, and that my orders from home were to refrain from expressing my personal opinions. The High Command has installed military censorship of everything I say, but fortunately the chief censor is a naval officer, an honourable and decent man. I have had some warm words with him the last couple of days, but within the limits of his
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