PRESS CONFERENCE.
SPEECH BY PRINCE. LONDON, Jan. 17. The Prince of Wales, as Master of the Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaperinakers, presided at a dinner, attended by Lord Astor, to the English and Canadian delegations to the Imperial Press Conference.
The Prince, sitting between Lord Astor and Mr J. H. Thomas (Dominions Secretary) recalled Lord Rosebery’s speech when inaugurating the conference in 1910, in which ho declared that a great newspaper guiding and embodying public opinion was immeasurably greater than any statesman.
The Prince added amid laughter: 1 am sitting between a newspaper proprietor and a statesman, so I am hardly in a position lo lay down the law on the matter.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 44, 19 January 1935, Page 7
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113PRESS CONFERENCE. Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 44, 19 January 1935, Page 7
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