Censorship of United States Publications. Note by Secy.

used in the manufacture etc., of any articles under export license. They are doing their utmost to restrict the meaning of the definition "available to the general public" and I am sure I shall find this Department very sympathetic. The question arises whether barring some restriction at the source it is of any use to continue stopping the material in question in the mails. Any information published in the United States can of course be forwarded to the enemy (a) through intermediaries in Russia or Japan (b) through intermediaries in South America via Lati (c) by telegraph but (a) the Russo-Japanese route is slow and requires special intermediary arrangements (b) the Lati route is very restricted as to weight and also requires the use of intermediaries (c) telegraphy is expensive and published matter therefore requires to be summarized by some reasonably expert individual.