TRANS-ATLANTIC NEWS SERVICE

Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 10 June 1933, Page 11

TRANS-ATLANTIC NEWS SERVICE

IVURING the discussion of the war debts payment a suggestion was made that people in England 'should arrange with friends in the United States to exchange official “Hansard” reports of tne important statements and debates in the British Parliament and in Congress. An American visitor ; to London wrote to “The Times” explaining that Americans have access through their own newspapers to expressions of opinion in Britain. He said that the “New York Times” on December 35 contained a report of the debate on war debts in the House of Commons on the preceding day. “The speech of Mr No\ r ille Chamberlain Avas reported in full, by cable, and fills five columns; and there is -Iso more than a column of extracts from other speeches made during the debate. On this occasion alone more

than 5000 words were cabled at 2ld a word, in order to keep the American public informed. Two days earlier the same newspaper in New:York published a full translation of M. Harriot’s speech in the French Chamber, wirelessed to New York—a far more complete presentation of the French case than any I was able to find in any British newspaper at the time. These were not exceptional performances, but merely examples of the regular policy of the ‘New York Times’ since the wai' of publishing fully, regardless of expense, all the Important pronouncements of statesmen or Governments in the A\ n orld’s capitals. I cannot recall any instance of a London newspaper publishing in full a Presidential message, still less a Cabinet Minister’s speech, by eable from across the Atlantic.”