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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30106, 15 April 1963, Page 11

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‘Proud Day For Journalists 9

(N.Z.P.A .-Reuter—Copyright) ZURICH (Switzerland),

April 14. The day when two British reporters chose to go to gaol rather than disclose their sources of information was a proud day for journalists throughout the world, the president of the International Press Institute (Mr Rohan Rivett) said in Zurich. (Mr Brendan Mulholland, of the-London “Daily Mail,” was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment, and Mr Reginald Foster, of the London “Daily Sketch." to three months for refusing to disclose sources of information to an official security tribunal. They entered gaol on March 7.)

Mr Rivett wrote in an 1.P.1. report that the profession of a journalist would continue to attract some of the most patriotic. many of the most intelligent, and not a few of the most idealistic young men and young women in every free nation. But it would do so only so long as it remained a calling which refused to act as a rubber stamp for governments, even when those governments were armed with the most draconian cowers which legal minds could devise.