FREEDOM OF THE PRESS
A FRENCH SUGGESTION UNITED NATIONS’ NEWS SERVICE WASHINGTON, (Rec. 0.30 a.m.) Jan. 5. .’ The French Ambassador, M. Henri Bonnet, speaking at a United Nations Information Board luncheon, urged the formation of a permanent United Nations’ news service as a supplementary guarantee of freedom of the press. Mr Elmar Davis, Director of the Office of War Information, said it was vitally important that now that the United Nations’ information services are effectively organised, they must be wide open and liberal in politics. The British Minister in Charge of Information, Mr Harold Butler, said that one of the League of Nations’ weaknesses was lack of information among member States, not -nly about the League itself, but about the activities of individual nations. An information service with a free exchange of ideas and impressions was an indispensable part of any world organisation.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25736, 6 January 1945, Page 5
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