Quote#Freedom
I shall leave the Editor unrestricted control unless he should—which…
Quote byAlfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe · 1865–1922
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Remarks after his purchase of The Times (1908), quoted in Frederick Harcourt Kitchin, The London 'Times' Under the Managership of Moberly Bell: An Unofficial Narrative (1925), p. 238.
English (original)
I shall leave the Editor unrestricted control unless he should—which is quite incredible—fail to warn the British people of the coming German peril. I insist upon that duty being discharged. Apart from Germany the Editor is free to take any line of policy which commends itself to him.
— Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe
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