“ REAL NEWS ” NOT RELEASED

Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24624, 21 July 1945, Page 7

“ REAL NEWS ” NOT RELEASED

LONDON NEWSPAPER’S COMPLAINT (Rec.JS p.m.) j LONDON Jufr I* Potsdam conference Is the most crucial conference of modern times, yet in some respects it has degenerated into a roaring force, the “Daily Mail” in a leading article. “This is bound to happen if the assembled world’s press is fed nothing but trivialities, and is not permitted to transmit anything of the real news which the nations are waiting to hear. “So closely are the priflclpals guarded that it takes two hours »r a message to reach them from people just outside the compound. So well are the correspondents dragooned mat they are called into solemn conference to be told of the arrival of Mickey difficult to know whether to describe such an atmosphere as a Rloak and a dagger, or a custard pie. If the statesmen wanted a secret conference they should have so ordained from the beginning; but most of the preliminaries were conducted in the full, tight of publicity. It was only when the real work oegan that the flow of information was suddenly dammed at its source. A secret conclave would not be tolerated by public opinion. “A few would go to the opposite extreme and advocate verbatim reports of every session. There is a medium course, which we suggest should be adopted.”