In a speech here today, Hugh S. Johnson, NRA Administrator declared that recent events in Germany had shown him “more clearly” why American newspaper publishers have insisted into writing into their codes a clause saving their constitutional rights.
He said that he thought writing a free press clause in the publishers’ codes was “pure surplusage” because the Constitutional rights of the people cannot be signed away.
“Stories about subversive influences in our Government are just plain bunk,” he added. “If there were any I should be among the first to know them and to shrink to high heaven about them.”
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