“Monitor” Editor To Talk In Christchurch

Press, Issue 30997, 1 March 1966, Page 25

“Monitor” Editor To Talk In Christchurch

One of America’s most distinguished journalists, Mr E. D. Canham, editor-in-chief of the “Christian Science Monitor,” will visit Christchurch on Friday in the course of a public speaking tour of 40 of the world’s major cities. He is making the tour for the Christian Science Church. Mr Canham will address a public meeting on the “Spiritual Revolution” in the Horticultural Hall ®n Friday at 8 p.m. Mr Canham began with the

“Monitor” in 1925 and the next year went to Oxford University for three years as a Rhodes Scholar. He served as the newspaper’s Geneva correspondent for several years and later as chief of its Washington bureau. He became editor in 1945 and editor-in-chief in 1964.

U.N. Appointments

Mr Canham was vice-chair-man of the United States delegation to the United Nations’ Conference on Freedom of Information in 1948, and in 1949 was appointed the alternate American delegate to the United Nations’ General Assembly in New York. His public speaking engagements, books, and news commentaries on television and radio have made Mr Canham well known to a wide audience. He is a former president of the American Society of

Newspaper Editors, chairman of the National Manpower Council, a director of the National Bureau of Economic Research, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a director of the World Peace Foundation.

Mr Canham was elected president of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States in 1959 and became chairman of the board in 1960. He will be introduced on Friday by Mr W. R. Lascelles, who will be guest chairman of the meeting. Arrangements for the visit were made by the Christian Science churches of New Zealand, as part of their observance of the centennial celebrations of the Christian Science Church.