ABSTRACT
The long-awaited propitious moment for a new OSA to be brought to Parliament seemed at last to have arrived. The attempt to draft the separate Bill on the publication of naval and military information, in a form which would meet both official and political concerns and yet be acceptable to the Press, was also restarted. In March 1910, the Prime Minister invited Winston Churchill to chair the CID Standing Sub-Committee in considering the matter anew. At a June meeting, amendments were agreed to meet known press concerns, and there was discussion of a War Office proposal that a joint Naval and Military Bureau should be established ‘to deal with the issue of information to the Press in time of war’. There were now four major areas of CID study affecting the Press:
Amendment of the OSA.
Control of the Press in Time of Crisis.
Regulation of War Correspondents.
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