PRESS CONFERENCE

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 265, 3 August 1920, Page 5

PRESS CONFERENCE

CHARGED WITH IMPORTANT TASKS

PROVIDING- FACTS AND CREATING OPINION By Telegraph-Press ABsooiation-CopyrieW St. John (New Brunswick), July 81. Speaking at a civio luncheon on Friday, Mr. T. E. Naylor, delegate to the Imperial Press Conference for the British Writing Trades and Chairman of the London Labour Party, raid that in Britain democracy was gradually assuming a higher position in ,the national council;. The assumption of authority by the Extreme Left .would'not n.nke the slightest difference in the attitude of the -prospective new Government towards the overseas Dominions. The English-speaking nations were the guardians of the world's, pence, always in the van of the world's progress. Nothing the representatives of labour desired make the prosperity of tho Enipire as great as could the restraining of the forces making for disintegration and revolution.

Sir Robert Bruce, editor of the "Glasgow Globe," in outlining the plans and aspirations of' the conference/ paid it was to discover how it cpuld 'make peace secure, oxercising a function no less responsible . than that of Governinont, namely, providing facts and .oreating and providing opinion on the faots. '• he conference was charged with the task of establishing a Press free of unhealthy influences, and breaking down. the barriers which ' prevented or hindered the growtli of understanding between the countries of tho Empire by disseminating truthfulness and honest comment. The conference would consider the increase of cable facilities, and the speaker mentioned the possibilities of wireless telephony.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.