The Brooklyn Eagle (June 3, 1944)
Mail from Britain is delayed by invasion controls
Washington (UP) –
British and State Department sources said tonight that they believed the recent delay in receipt of letters in this country from Great Britain was the result of transportation problems and pre-invasion censorship of mail.
Americans accustomed to receiving letters have regularly reported in some cases not receiving any for as long as two weeks.
Office of Censorship officials said Americans would have to be patient and added that they thought the public would understand the present difficulties.
The severe restrictions on communications out of the British Isles, which were imposed more than a month ago to prevent pre-invasion leaks, did not apply to ordinary mail, but only to communications in code. But officials pointed out that at the same time stricter censorship of ordinary mail was set up.
That, they said, might have resulted in the holding up of some mail until the flow through the more severe censorship began again. Transportation, always a problem, is believed to be even more difficult at this time.