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It happened in the late fall of 1939 when, after a Nazi submarine had penetrated the British sea defense around the Firth of For
It happened in the late fall of 1939 when, after a Nazi submarine had penetrated the British sea defense around the Firth of For
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It happened in the late fall of 1939 when, after a Nazi submarine had penetrated the British sea defense around the Firth of Forth and damaged a British cruiser, Reston and a colleague contrived to get the news past British censorship. They cabled a series of seemingly harmless sentences to The Times’s editors in New York, having first sent a message instructing the editors to regard only the last word of each sentence. Thus they were able to convey enough words to spell out the story. The fact that the news of the submarine attack was printed in New York before it had appeared in the British press sparked a big controversy that led to an investigation by Scotland Yard and British Military Intelligence. But it took the investigators eight weeks to decipher The Times’s reporters’ code, an embarrassingly slow bit of detective work, and when it was finally solved the incident had given the story very prominent play, later expressed dismay that the reporters had risked so much for so little. And the incident left Reston deeply distressed. It was so out of character for him to have. become involved in such a thing. The tactics were questionable and, though the United States was not yet in the war, Britain was already established as America’s close ally and breaking British censorship seemed both an irresponsible and unpatriotic thing to do.
The passage indicates that eventually everyone involved came to regard the publication of the story in The Times as a ______.
选项
A、regrettable error
B、cheap journalistic trick
C、brilliant journalistic maneuver
D、proper exercise of the freedom of the press
答案
A
解析
短文暗示,每个卷入该事件的人最终把该报道刊登在《时代》周刊上看作是一个令人后悔的错误。文章最后一句说,尽管美国尚未参战,但英国已被确立为美国最亲密的同盟国。因此,突破英国的审查制度似乎是一种不负责任的行为而且是一种不爱国的行为。
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