FREEDOM OF PRESS
HOPE OF MR. TRUMAN
Rec. 9 a.m.
NEW YORK, June 22
President Truman, in a letter to Mr. Wilbur Forrest, chairman of the Press committee which recently toured the world, expressed the hope that freedom of the Press may become a vehicle of more sympathetic understanding and closer' -friendship among the nations of the world.
He added that unhappy conflict of principles and policies which sundered the world and threatened civilisation through six tragic years emphasised* the need for continued co-operation among the peoples and Governments of the United Nations.
"I hope your mission will contribute to that happy consummation," added Mr. Truman.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 147, 23 June 1945, Page 7
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