THE LATEST EXAMPLE Of the workings of 'Security,' described in
the News Chronicle, is typical. A fortnight ago the Chronicle wanted to print a picture of the three steel towers which have been going up this summer alongside the Great North Road at Hatfield, in full view of the public. `Security' refused permission; a ban which was rescinded only when details were published in an American magazine. There had been nothing to prevent anybody from going and looking at the towers: yet if he had published a picture of them he could have been sent to one. But would he? The other day the Express published an un- authorised picture of the first of the series of British H-bomb tests. Was action taken against. the paper? No: presumably because Security, though it would not have hesitated to come down on anybody weaker, was reluctant to take on Lord Beaverbrook.
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