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A Purged Press for France

Baxter, Rufus | September 9, 1944 issue

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The reform of the French press, undertaken by the Algiers government as part of a vast effort to resolve the problems of liberation and reconstruction in the spirit of the Fourth Republic, has provoked a wave of criticism in France and Great Britain. The new legislation, drawn up to meet the peculiar conditions existing in France today, provides the weapons necessary for a legal purge of a fascist-distorted press. The new French laws concerning the press contain various provisions, the most important of which oblige journals to make public their sources of income and the true names of their directors and backers.

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PRESS & politics; GOVERNMENT & the press; JOURNALISM -- Political aspects; FREEDOM of the press; FRANCE; ALGERIA; GREAT Britain
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