FREEDOM OF PRESS
Importance Emphasized
(Rec 8.40 p.m.) LONDON, October 31. Miss Ellen Wilkinson, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Home Security, addressing the conference of the International Federation of Journalists, said interference with freedom of opinion in war-time should be of the most restricted kind. “It is important that the Press in war-time should be free to criticize within the limits they themselves regard as just and right and in the public interest,” he said. “The informal partnership between the Press and the Government has been one triumph of the war’s democratic conduct.”
The Minister of Information, Mr Brendan Bracken, sent a message saying that an independent Press free to comment, criticize and tell the truth fearlessly was high on the list of things for which they were fighting.
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Southland Times, Issue 24890, 2 November 1942, Page 5
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130FREEDOM OF PRESS Southland Times, Issue 24890, 2 November 1942, Page 5
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