PLACED ABOVE PARTY.

Auckland Star, Volume XL, Issue 136, 9 June 1909, Page 5

PLACED ABOVE PARTY.

PATRIOTISM BY SILENCE.

(By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.)

(Received 8.30 a.m.)

LONDON, June 8. The Imperial Press Conference to-day-discussed the question of the Tress and ; the Navy, the discusion being entitled ! "The Press and Imperial Defence —the j A Navy." Thi3 is the first half of the dis- j f cussion, which will be continued to-rnor- S J row, when the relations of the Press and i - the Army will be discussed. Mr. Reginald McKenna ( First Lord of j the Admiralty), who presided, urged the j> placing of the navy above party, making ' it an Imperial question in the sense of 1 partnership in a navy common to all. ' Sir Edward Grey (Foreign Secretary) J discussed the functions of the Press, j Criticism, he held, should not be partisan. ] Newspapers in war time should show | patriotism by silence upon many things j they knew. ' Lord Cromer urged stricter control of the vernacular Press. ! Mr. F. W. Ward, editor of the -'SydneyDaily Telegraph," made a notable speech. ' Other speakers were Messrs. Alfred Lyttelton, H. A. Gwyune (editor of the • "Standard"), Maitlanri Hill Park (editor of the "Cape Times"') and L. C. M. S. Amery (editor of the "Times" History of the War in South Africa). | . ! Amery (editor of the '"Times' , History of r the war in South Africa. J