PRESS AND RADIO BOTH

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 90, Issue 166, 19 July 1946, Page 5

PRESS AND RADIO BOTH

i LABOUR BELIEVES IN PERIODICAL INQUIRY London. July 16. I In principle, the Government, bellieved that all organs of opinion—the ' 3.8. C. and the Press—would benefit I by having their “state of health” ini dependently investigated periodically, ■Mr. Herbert Morrison told the House I of Commons. • “We do not exclude the Press from ’»consideration in the interest of its I health and the very freedom of the I Press, which is vital 1o our constitutional liberties,” he said. • Mr. Morrison emphasised that while i this was an expression of Government policy, there had been no Govj eminent decision. The Government [for some months had been trying to [secure a radio station for broadcasting to Austria and Germany. Discus- ' sidns were now going on with Radio ;Luxembourg, in association with the" t French Government. i Mr. W. J. Brown, stressing the need .for channels through which the comImunity could express itself, said he | believed there was a case for inquiry • into monopolistic tendencies of the | Press. I “The totalitarianism of the Left is j becoming an exceedingly formidable • thing, and we have reached a state |where a man can write freely only in I the capitalistic Press,” he added.