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Autumn issues of American periodicals touched the problems of journalism at several points. The professional magazines were not alone in reciting the story of the revival of the French press after liberation from the Nazi yoke. The policy of licensing newspapers and exerting censorship over them raised doubts of the postwar freedom of the press in liberated countries. Non-professional journals, as well as the trade press, stressed these developments. The strong numerical and editorial support given to the presidential candidacy of Thomas E. Dewey by daily newspapers and Northern weeklies created a debate on the "prestige position" of the press in the 1944 campaign. Editor & Publisher denied that the press has lost influence. A few of the quality group magazines took up the cudgels in an attempt to prove the contrary. Much attention was given to proposals for an international agreement that would keep the worldwide news channels free and give American reporters abroad easy access to news sources. Radio spokesmen in their trade journals claimed credit for improvement in the coverage of war news in the various combat theatres. F. E. M.

The first months of 1943 produced a good deal of discord for the Fourth Estate. The ANPA convention was concerned over federal encroachment on press freedom. All newspaper groups lambasted the proposed censorship on the international food conference, and some concessions were gained. The AP and the Justice Department bombarded each other with supplemental questions in the anti-trust action. The National Editorial Association went ahead with plans for an advertising service despite opposition from the American Press Association. An interesting number of articles on the Negro press appeared during the period. F. E. M.

The invasion of North Africa by American troops and President Roosevelt's air trip to Casablanca marked the beginning and ending of the current period with resulting emphasis on newspaper coverage of that theater in articles on the press and communications. The government's suit against the Associated Press on monopoly charges attracted a great deal of interest. Censorship of stories going out of this country to England aroused some concern. Advertisers and media, not too displeased with the 1942 showing, fought back hard when a group of social scientists asked that advertising be eliminated for the duration. F. E. M.

War-related articles dominated materials on the press for the current quarter. There was increasing interest in the impact of the war on the press as a business. Exciting accounts of activities of correspondents in war zones were common. Major non-war issue was the civil suit filed by the federal government against the Associated Press concerning alleged monopolistic practices. There was a surprising dearth of material on journalism education and the war. F. E. M

Developments in World War II, particularly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, dominated magazine material relating to the press. An outstanding development was the establishment of a Board of Censorship with Byron Price, Associated Press news executive, appointed as chief censor. The January, 1942, issue of the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science was devoted to "The Press in the Contemporary Scene" and this symposium covered many of the topics listed in this bibliography. Advertisers continued to discuss the impact of war on linage. Marshall Field HI got the Chicago Sun started in December. F.E.M.