Pegler Gets Scooped

Before Westbrook Pegler could open his mouth, the White House gave out the news: Franklin Roosevelt had been to Hyde Park and was back on the job. Pegler had said that next time he heard of a blacked-out Presidential trip to Hyde Park, he would defy censorship and report it (TIME, March 5). He just didn't hear of it until he read it in a newspaper. But if Pegler got cheated out of some agreeable notoriety, he did get something which he and many U.S. editors wanted: a slight easing up of an absurd censorship. The White House promised that henceforth, once the President is back in town, it will always be all right to say that he has been away, and where.

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