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Grey River Argus, 12 September 1944, Page 4

PRESS NEWS SERVICES

WORLDWIDE REMOVAL OF REGULATION AMERICAN PROPOSAL (Rec. 8.35) WASHINGTON, Sept. 10. An American proposal that all nations of the world shall guarantee freedom of news as one means of preserving peace has already been drawn up by the State Department. It may soon be submitted to other United Nations, says the Associated Press. The American plan envisages: (1) That news men should have the right to gather news wherever it dvelops oi’ exists, and the right to transmit news from any country without hindrance. (2) That each country should permit unhindered receipt news from anywhere in the world as a means of promoting ,a free inter-change of information. The proposal has been in the diplomatic hopper since the beginning of the war, when Senator Hull initiated studies on the organising of the post-war world. The undertaking reached its most advanced stage so far in .an agreement between the American Army and French National Committee that the French would not exercise censorship over correspondents. It has also been decided that one of the first activities of Allied forces in Germany will be to wrest all means of communications from the defeated Nazis, and to restore free, honest news to the German people. The American proposal could be announced jointly with some other country, or unilaterally by the U.S. Government with other nations being invited to join in. One. possibility for' a bilateral agreement lies in a proposed conference, Late in the autumn between British and American communication experts to work out a mutually acceptable policy on cable and wireless transmission facilities and rates