KEY TO SUCCESSFUL UNITED NATIONS
XEW YORIv, June 1. The fonner Aniericau Ambassador to Poitain, Air. J. (}. Winant, addressiug the Economie. and Social (Nmncil deseribed universal freedom of infonnatiou and the Press as the kev to a suceesslu! [ nited Xations. ITe shai'xily disagrecd with Air. Feonov 's conteution that, in favouring the creation of a subeouimission 011 this subject, ATrs. Roosevelt's Conitnission 0:1 Ifuman Rights had tried to relegate to tlie backgrouiul other fundanieutal freedonis. Air. Xoel-Baker (Britain) suggested that there was an immediate need for a coiiference of tlie Press about the Ihess — rules which the Press 11111st i'ollow, and the protection tlie Press sliould have iu the immediate future. Air. Xoel-Baker agreed with Air. Feonov that tlie proposal to insert clauses about Iniman rights in peaec treaties sliould not be adopted, but said that a maia prineiple sliould be drawn u] ■ before September. This might lielp the Powcrs to put in the treaties obligatidn to observe fundamental liuman rights, ro that their peoples ivould realise tiint they had an obligatiou towards the world at large in that regard.
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Chronicle (Levin), 4 June 1946, Page 5
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