HIGH CABLE CHARGES CRITICIZED
American Praises British System (Rec. 9.30 p.m.) NEW YORK, Dec. 12. Mr Kent Cooper, executive director of the Associated Press, addressing the National Association of Manufacturers, said censorship and heavy transmission charges tended to stifle the exchange of news. He expressed the opinion that reduced communication rates could pave the way to more permanent peace. He added that he should like to see a rate of one or two cents a word between any two world capitals. Such a reduction would not be a subsidy, but it would bring about the establishment of a self-supporting Press in many countries. Mr Cooper instanced the example of the British Commonwealth, which, despite its far-flung dispersion geographically, had been welded through a free Press into one national communiity, served by the greatest world wide
syndicate of cable and wireless communications adapted for the exchange of news the world had ever seen, through which news flowed freely at rates encouraging unlimited wordage and resulting in acquaintance and understanding.
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Southland Times, Issue 25545, 13 December 1944, Page 5
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