County Meath and the Censorship Question

AS will be seen from the following correspondence, the Library Committee of County Meath has taken very seriously an observation we made in one of our Notes and News items in the Spring number of the LIBRARY REVIEW. In view of the subject being one of high interest not only to Irish librarians but also to readers everywhere, we invited observations from other quarters, and these we have pleasure in publishing. Our readers, we feel sure, will be much interested in the discussion, but it seems almost a sinister sign that without exception our Irish correspondents (not all of whom are librarians) beg us to withhold their names from their quite innocuous comments. We would enquire if the politician alone is to be allowed the liberty of free expression of opinion?