PRESS PROBLEMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 111, 10 April 1926, Page 9

PRESS PROBLEMS.

CONGRESS OF JOURNALISTS. SPEECH BY PRESIDENT COOLIDGE AYASHINGTON, April 8. AYitli President Coolidge as tlie principal speaker, the first Pan-American Congress of Journalists embarked on Thursday upon tho study of various problems confronting the Press. Twentyone republics are represented, with a view to working for a better understanding among their nations. in laying tho corner-stone of a homo to be erected here for the National Press Club, the President referred to the country’s Press as “one of the corner-stones of liberty.” Discussing the League of Nations, President Coolidge said the United States refused to adhere to the'organisation because it wished to “retrain from interfering in tlie political affairs of others, it will bo of great benefit if tho people can be informed that we take part m administering international justice because it affects us. AYo do not become involved in tho political controversies of other countries because they are none of our affairs” Referring to the recent adhering, with reservations, of the United States to the AVoiid Court, President Coolidge said: “Our Government has taken this step because it believes it to be tlie most practical method by which it could exercise its great infiuence in establishing the principle of international law under which disputes and differences would be adjudged not by force but by reason.”—Reuter.