"NEW YORK TIMES"

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 48, 26 February 1934, Page 9

"NEW YORK TIMES"

INTEREST IN BRITAIN

A FINE NEWS SERVICE

ABLE REPRESENTATIVES

(From "The Post's" Representative.) NEW YORK, January 18.

Tho Britisher, temporarily exiled from tho Motherland or tho Dominions, finds great solaco in the sympathetic presentation of their activities given from day to day in the "New York Times." Whether he lives here, in the American metropolis, or in a remote part' of the country, he reads it, with almost the respect and Tevercnee he would feel in a distant corner of the "Empire, for the .London "Times,"-as tho contemporary history of our day.

' Like "The Times',', of London, its American "cousin-has men of highconir niunity standing,' as well.as intellectual calibre, .as its representatives .'in...'the main centres.of influence in-Britairi and the Dominions, besides world capitals. Its standard of .journalism'lies close to the British, tradition; .-.lts' editorials on British affairs and foreign policy ■would be welcome reading if published in Fleet Street. : . ;

Since .the-Great 'War, when British and American policieswcro more closely aligned-than, at any time within present memory, .the."New York Times" has devoted increasing spaco to British activities., Public pronouncements by the Prime/Minister,' members of the Cabinet, or loaders of ' thought are cabled verbatim across the Atlantic. Wo often,sop.the ■whimsical paradox of an important utterance in tho House of Commons more fully reported: in the "New York Times?' than in leading Fleet Street journals.'. Owing,, to', his immense popularity in the United States, the speeches of the Prince of "Wales are cabled in full. Tho volume of, Empire news in the "Times" ia greater than appears, in Canadian news: papers—those- "which do not maintain representatives in Empire capitals.' .

'The, fraternal-interest displayed by the "New York . Times" in British affairs was never better illustrated than on the' occasion of the E'mpiro Conference at Ottawa. Its ablest writers and ,foreign, reviewers wcro in Ottawa for its duration,' and gavo a day-to-day account of the doings and trends of the Conference that are today a historical ■work of roference. Owing to its greater size, and its' propinquity,, the.''Times'' was able^.to give ampler. leports of the work of- the Conference, than appeared elsewhere,, including the. text of all the inter-Empire, reciprocal trade treaties. .: Your Britisher; wherever he may be, takes a, keener, interest in world affairs than the citizen- of any other country. The scattered nature of his Empire, and tho mingling of foreign interests in its remotest partß, demands it., of him. Hereabouts,, he receives his first impression of impending possible changes lin the status quo from".the "New York Times," and discovers, with agreeable surprise, when his own papers como to hand that, the , British viewpoint is almost as sympathetically handled. Britishers, domiciled or travelling between Maine aiid California, from the St. Lawrence .to. tho Rio Gvande. are pleased to testify to this independence of thought and sense of justice of a great newspaper, that eases the pain of exile or absence, from their homeland...; ";■ : ■'.-■ ;