Date:26/02/2003 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2003/02/26/stories/2003022601260903.htm

Miscellaneous - This Day That Age

dated February 26, 1953: VOA Official Suspended

The U.S. State Department suspended Alfred H. Morton, Chief of Voice of America's International Broadcasting Service for having disregarded an order forbidding the use of material from Communist writers in transmissions to Iron Curtain countries. Mr. Morton had sent a memo to other officials of VOA expressing disagreement with the order.