Note A — Chapter IV · THE ROVER NEWSBOYS ABROAD
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Banks, oil companies, etc., still have experts stationed in key cities abroad to keep them posted on specialized business developments of the greatest ultimate general political significance. “This kind of intelligence service, which many foreign chancelleries might envy, has been of great service to America’s foreign trade,” says O. W. Riegel, in Mobilizing for Chaos. The vital news gathered by these private agencies is withheld from the press, except when calculated “leaks” will serve the interests of industry or of the State as a whole. The press never howls about this kind of censorship.