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It happened in the late fall of 1939 when, after a Nazi submarine had penetra
It happened in the late fall of 1939 when, after a Nazi submarine had penetra
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It happened in the late fall of 1939 when, after a Nazi submarine had penetrated the British sea defense around the Firth of Forth and damaged a British cruiser, Reston and a colleague contrived to get the news past British censorship. They cabled a series of seemingly harmless sentences to The Times’s editors in New York, having first sent a message instructing the editors to regard only the last word of each sentence. Thus they were able to convey enough words to spell out the story. The fact that the news of the submarine attack was printed in New York before it had appeared in the British press sparked a big controversy that led to an investigation by Scotland Yard and British Military Intelligence. But it took the investigators eight weeks to decipher The Times’s reporters’ code, an embarrassingly slow bit of detective work, and when it was finally solved the incident had given the story very prominent play, later expressed dismay that the reporters had risked so much for so little. And the incident left Reston deeply distressed. It was so out of character for him to have. become involved in such a thing. The tactics were questionable and, though the United States was not yet in the war, Britain was already established as America’s close ally and breaking British censorship seemed both an irresponsible and unpatriotic thing to do. [br] According to the author, the British did little about the story’s publication mainly because ______.
选项
A、everyone responsible had apologized for what had happened
B、it took the authorities too long to figure out how the censors had been outwitted
C、Scotland Yard and British Military Intelligence disagreed about who was at fault
D、they were afraid to admit that the censors had been so easily fooled
答案
B
解析
根据作者的观点,英国人对该报道被发表一事没有采取什么行动,主要是因为英国当局花了很长的时间尚未查明审查官们是怎样上当受骗的。文中说,调查人员花了 8周时间才破译《时代》周刊新闻记者的密码。但最终问题得到了解决,事件平息了,没有就该事件采取什么行动。
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