The reason I cannot return is because I have "credentials." It is not that they want ME here, but they want my credentials here.

The administration is using, as I see it, the privilege of having a correspondent at the front as a club.

It says until war is declared it won't issue any more.

So those syndicates who have no correspondent and the papers forming them, are afraid to attack or to criticise the administration for fear they will be blacklisted.

And those who have a correspondent with his three thousand dollar signed and sealed pass in his pocket aren't taking any chance on losing him.