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AMERICAN MEMORIAL

NEW ZEALAND JOURNALIST NEW YORK, Dec. 9. Twelve Liberty ships to be launched next week will be named after Press correspondents killed on the world battle fronts. The correspondents so honoured include the New Zealander, Keith Palmer.

Addressing the Overseas Press Club, Mr. Paul Patterson, publisher of the Baltimore Sun, said correpondents should be prevented from taking unnecessary risks in covering war assignments.

Colonel Stanley Grogan, an official of the War Department, took the opposite view. He said:. "We regard the Press not as a commercial or profit-making organisation, but as part of the war effort. We believe that the correspondents who went to their deaths went as part of the great American principle of freedom of the Press."

Mr. Roydon Keith Palmer, aged 3G years, was war correspondent of the Melbourne Herald in the South Pacific area when he was killed on November -7 during a Japanese bombing attack wl);ie he was reporting the American operations at Bougainville. Solomon Islands. He lelt a wife and two children. Mr. .Palmer began his journalistic career with the Christchurch Sun in 1927 and later joined the Press. Christchurch. He became a member oj the staff of the Melbourne Herald in 1036 and specialised as a writer on aviation. Mr. Palmer uy the elder son of Mr. n. A. Palmer, of Kati Kati, Bay ot Plenty.

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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 293, 10 December 1943, Page 5

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AMERICAN MEMORIAL Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 293, 10 December 1943, Page 5

AMERICAN MEMORIAL Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 293, 10 December 1943, Page 5

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