'THE THUNDERER’

Evening Star, Issue 18715, 18 August 1924, Page 4

'THE THUNDERER ’

COMMITTEE OF CONTROL,

EDITORIAL INDEPENDENCE.

LONDON, August 6. Plans to' ensure the perpetual independence of 1 The Times ’ have been completed. ‘The Times’ announces the constitution of a committee whose object shall be to prevent the ownership of the paper “being transferred to the highest bidder or falling into unworthy hands.” The committee will have absolute discretion to approve or disapprove of the transfer of any of the controlling shares now held by Major J. J. Aatnr and Mr John Walter. It having been decided to enlist representatives of the judicial, academic, scientific, and financial spheres in national life, tho following were invited to form a committee and have accepted : —The Lord Chief Justice, the Warden of All Souls’ College, Oxford, the President of the Royal Society, the President of tho Institute of Chartered Accountants, and the Governor of the Bank of England. The committee will act cx-oflicio, and if their successors are unable to act in a similar capacity provision is made to find substitutes. In selecting tho committee the guiding principle was to select persons precluded from participating in active politics. The committee will be in nowise concerned with tho management 'or editorial policy of the paper.