UNITED NATIONS
INFORMATION DEPARTMENT ESTABLISHMENT AGREED TO LONDON, Dec. 19. The United Nations’ Preparatory Commission has accepted the recommendations of the Advisory Committee for the establishment of a department of public information under an assistant secretary-general. The committee recommends that the department’s activities should be so organised and directed as to promote to the greatest possible extent informed understanding of the United Nations’ work and purposes among the world’s peoples, primarily through the co-operation of established Governmental and non-Governmental agencies, but also by initiating positive informational activities without engaging in propaganda. The committee further recommends, first, that the press and other existing agencies of information should be given the fullest possible direct access to the organisation’s activities and official documentation; secondly, thp department should consider the establishment of branch offices as soon as practicable; thirdly, its functions should fall into five categories—namely, Press, publications, radio, films, and exhibitions, public liaison and reference; fourthly, the department should provide at United Nations’ headquarters and branch offices services to ensure that the press is supplied with full information.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26033, 22 December 1945, Page 9
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