PRESS AND EMPIRE
TO BE DISCUSSED AT JUNE
CONFERENCE
(British Official Wireless.)
RUGBY, February 15,
Major J. J. Astor, presiding at the annual meeting of the Empire. Press Union in London today, announced that the theme of the discussions at the annual conference in June is to be the relationship between the Governments and the Press of the Empire. The overseas sections of the union were already engaged in preparing papers on the various headings under which the subject is to be divided, and a number of authoritative speakers had already consented to take part.
This would be the first time that the Empire Press had attempted a comprehensive review of its own position in the life and structure of the Empire, said Major Astor.
"At a time when part of the world must almost have forgotten what a free Press is," he added. "It may be opportune to remind ourselves and others of the part which the Press plays in maintaining the cohesion of an empire in which foreign countries 'seem able to take a considerable interest."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 40, 17 February 1939, Page 9
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