Freedom Of The Press
NEW YORK, Aug. 22. The United States Secretary for State (Mr J. F. Byrnes) at a press conference, said that he argued at Potsdam for freedom of the press which he believed would contribute more than anything else to DUblic understanding and acceptance of the Potsdam decisions. Britain, Russia and the United States, he added, had no doubt that under the changed conditions of peacetime the Allied press would have full freedom to report events. This was supported by the Russian concession to a party of Allied correspondents who had been taken to Poland and allowed full freedom of movement and uncensored transmission of news. President Truman told the assistant general manager of the Associated Press, Mr Paul Miller, lhat he desired that all press representatives, irrespective of origin or nationality, should have equal access to Washington news. He added that he hoped the same was true all over the world an.d that American newsmen would have ‘ equal access with other journalists in all countries.
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Northern Advocate, 24 August 1945, Page 7
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