PRESS CONFERENCE

Marlborough Express, Volume LIV, Issue 182, 3 August 1920, Page 2

PRESS CONFERENCE

TRUE! AIM OF BRITISH

DEMOCRACY.

[Press Association.! Aus. and N.Z. Cable Association ST. JOHN (New Brunswick),

Aug. 1.

Speaking at a civici luncheon on Friday Mr T. E. Naylor, a. delegate* to tho Imperial Press Conference and chairman of the London Labor Party, j-.-a.id that in Britain the democracy was generally assuming a higher position in the national councils. The iassumption of authority by the Extreme Left would not make the .slightest difference in fche -attitude of tho prospective new Government towardy the Overseas Dominion. The English-speaking' nations were the guardians of the world's peace, and were always in tho van of the world's progress. The representative; of Labor desired to make the prosperity of the Empire as groat as they could, uii'l to restrain the forces making for disintegration and revolution. Sir Robert Bruce, editor of the Glasgow Globe, outlining the plans f:.nd aspirations of the conference, said that it was to discover how they could maka pevce secure by exercising a- function no le.ss responsible than Governments —namely,, the providing of facts and the creating and providing of opinion on the facts. The conference was charged with the task of establishing a press freo from unhcvvlthy influences, by breaking down Iho barriers preventing or tendering tho growth of understanding between the countries of tho Empire., and by disseminating truthfu.lne.sr-; and honest comment, in tho fuithering of which tho conference would consider the increase of cable facilities.. He mentioned the possibility of wireless telephony as shown by tho demonstration on tho Victorian on Friday night.