FREE FLOW OF NEWS
OBJECTIVE OUTLINED UNESCO RECOMMENDATION PARIS. Dec. 4. A UNESCO sub-commission carried a series of resolutions designed to promote an unrestricted, internationa.l flow of news information. It recommended an international press conference in 1947, unrestricted international circulation of newspapers, improved facilities for journalists, broadcasters and film producers, exchanges of journalists, the establishment in member countries of institutes of scientific information with UNESCO as a clearing house. The sub-commission adopted a recommendation by an American delegate, Mr. Chester Bowles, that UNESCO should co-operate with the Human Rights Commission in preparing a report on the obstacles to a free flow of information and ideas.
Mr. Bowles said: “The report, if courageous, is likely to step on important toes in many countries, including our own.’’
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22197, 6 December 1946, Page 6
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125FREE FLOW OF NEWS Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22197, 6 December 1946, Page 6
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