GREAT NEWSPAPER

Hokitika Guardian, 20 February 1933, Page 7

GREAT NEWSPAPER

THE “NEW YORK TIMES.”

CATERING FOR WORLD POLITICS.

During the discussion of the war debts payment a suggestion was made that peopie m England should arrange with, friends in the United States to exchange official Hansard reports oi the important statements and debates in the British Parliament and in Congress. An American visitor to London wrote to the Times explaining that Americans have access through their own newspapers to expressions of opinion in Britain. He said that the New York Times of December 15 contained a report of the debate on war debts in the Houte of Commons on the preceding day.

“The speech of Mr Neville Chamberlain was reported in full, by cable, and fills five columns; and there is also more than a column of extracts from other speeches made during the debate. On this occasion alone more than 5030 words were cabled, at 2|d a word, m order to keep the American public informed.

Tw 0 days earlier the same newspaper in New York published a full translation of M. Herriot’s speech in the French Chamber, wirelessed to New York —a far more complete presentation of the French case than any J was able to find in any British newspaper at the time. These were not exceptional performances, but merely examples of the regular policy of the Now York Times since tbe war of publishing fully, regardless of expense, all the important pronouncements of statesmen or Governments in the world’s capitals. I cannot recall' any instance of a London newspaper publishing in full a Presidential message, still less a Cabinet Minister’s speech, bv cable from across the Atlantic.”