COMMUNITY OF IDEAS

Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 90, 16 April 1920, Page 8

COMMUNITY OF IDEAS

GREAT WORK FOR THE PRESS.

(AUSTRALIAN - NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) * (Eeceived April 16, 2.30 p.m.)

LONDON, 15th April. Lord Atholstan, Chairman of the Imperial Press Conference to be held in Canada, was entertained at luncheon at the Savoy 'in connection with the British' Newspaper Proprietors' Conference. Lord Burnham presided, and the guests included the Duke of Devonshire, Lord Milner, Sir G. H. Perley (High. Commissioner for Canada), Sir Thomas Mackenzie (High Commissioner for New Zealand), Mr. A. Fisher (High Commissioner for Australia), and the editors and managers' of a hundred British and Dominion newspapers. Lord Burnham, in toasting Lord Atholstan, expressed the hope that the conference at Ottawa would continue the splendid work of the first conference for the general good of the Empire. Lord Atholstan, replying, said that Britain -was best able to state,how the Press Conference would benefit the Empire. He thought it would be even more profitable than the first, and that it would result in increasing emigration rather than in the lowering of the press cable rates. '

Lord "Milner, proposing fthe toast of "Canada," said that the war had witveined the rise of a new and great Power destined to influence increasingly the •councils of tli£ Empire. A world Press Conference was most valuable for establishing a community of ideas, to which was attributable the marvellous way in which the whole Empire pulled together an the hour of trial. In the absence of a common Council" for the. Empire the moral unity of the Empire depended largely on the success of the press of the Empire in evolving a common stock 'of ideas regarding future great problems.