Whenever. in the opinion of the Secretary of State. his foreign policy is served by censorship of news gathering abroad by the American press. it shall be imposed by the Department. This shall be done whether or not actual hostilities or present threats of them exist between the United States and the restricted area. 2. This censorship may be total. as under Dulles original Chinese exclusion act. Or it may be limited. by conditions on the tenure and content of the reporting that he prescribes in the role of nationwide publisher or managing editor. This concept is implicit in the first and in the revised positions of the State Department toward the gathering of information in Communist China by the American press.
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