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Censorship "skips" (again — sorry!)
My first post on this topic got sidetracked when I realized that I had
made a boo-boo, writing "Dublin" instead of "Belfast." With your indulgence I'd like to start again. Here is the question again, now corrected: I have a few international covers in my WWII collection, from various countries, which were not censored. In some cases, de facto censorship was carried out via currency export control inspections, but other covers show no evidence of even cursory censorship. I have two British covers, for example: — One posted from London to the U.S. on September 2, 1940, was *not* censored. — Another cover, posted two days later from Belfast to the U.S., *was* censored. Does anyone know whether censorship was supposed to be universally applied, and some letters were just missed, or whether some sort of selective "profiling" was used to select letters for censorship. I'm guessing that the huge volume of mail simply meant that it was impossible to censor every letter, especially given the manpower shortages that the war had created for the U.K. (On the other hand, censors weren't always so overworked that they couldn't add human touches to their work: I have several covers in which the original return address was partly covered by censor tape; the censor obviously took time to write the hidden part of the address on the tape itself. Your thoughts would be appreciated. Bob |
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